No option to export photos

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I'm new to LR and I have tried everything to figure this out. I'm trying to save my edited photos to a folder on my computer, but there is no button to do that. I've googled it and it says it should appear when I right click or under File -> Export. It's not in either of those places. My dad bought the subscription to LR for Christmas for me, and he's trying to use my student discount so I don't know if something got messed up there or what. I redeemed the code on the website and then downloaded the app from that. I'm starting to lose my mind. Please help.

Conrad_C · Accepted Answer

Also, if it helps, the Share icon that Rob_Cullen showed in his second example is the same type of Share icon you find in many mobile and macOS apps (not sure about Windows). So if you’ve already been using that Share icon to export files from apps on your iPhone or Mac for example, that’s what you’re looking for in Lightroom too.

If the screen shots don’t look familiar, we should check in case you might be using Lightroom Classic instead. It can export to a folder too, but in a slightly different way.

Rob_Cullen · Answer

Possibly you are using Lightroom-Web in a Web browser.

Start Lightroom in your Desktop computer from the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App.

Go > Help > System Info... and post the report in this thread.

These screen-clips are from My Lightroom on a Windows PC:

1) File > Export... (or [Shift+E] )

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2) From the [Share] icon:

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3) From a [Right-Click] on a selected photo:

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