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Ambrosial_athlete5C6B
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December 10, 2019
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Local Backup for Cloudy Lightroom

  • December 10, 2019
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I'm totally new to lightroom but have done a little research on the question of backups.  No doubt this has been asked a trillion times but not in my particular way so here goes...

 

I own a Mac at home and had hoped to switch everything over to the cloud version of lightroom because it is so much more user friendly and I'd like to be able to use my iPad and phone to edit photos when travelling.  I know I can sync with Lightroom from Classic but it is still quite a clunky process.  I'd like my local backup to be on Time Machine so that if I am missing a particular file or folder I can check back in time to locate it.  This has definitely saved my bacon at least once.  Am I stuck with using Classic because of the backup situation?  I really do not want to leave everything in Adobe's hands.  Does anyone have a backup workflow that works with Cloudy Lightroom alone?

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Correct answer Theresa J

This is just a copy of what is in the cloud. If you delete a photo in Lightroom it will be deleted from the local copy. BUT yes it works with Time Machine, so if you have a TM backup before you deleted the photo, you would still have a copy in TM. This isn't a good workflow though because it would require you to keep track of the dates that you delete images. A better workflow is to make your own backup of photos before you upload add(import) them into Lightroom.

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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December 10, 2019

You can save a local copy with Lightroom cloudy.

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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Ambrosial_athlete5C6BAuthor
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December 10, 2019

Ah yes.  But is it a backup or just a copy of what is in the cloud.  Will it work with time machine?  So many questions...

Theresa J
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December 11, 2019

This is just a copy of what is in the cloud. If you delete a photo in Lightroom it will be deleted from the local copy. BUT yes it works with Time Machine, so if you have a TM backup before you deleted the photo, you would still have a copy in TM. This isn't a good workflow though because it would require you to keep track of the dates that you delete images. A better workflow is to make your own backup of photos before you upload add(import) them into Lightroom.

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