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Option to sync a collection with Lightroom CC is not visible and can't create a synced collection

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November 13, 2020
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Hi, I am on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 and have the latest LR 10.0 w/ Camera Raw 13.0 installed (as of writing this post).

I am trying to create a synced collection that I want to export to Adobe Portfolio. However, even if I am logged on to Creative Cloud I do not see the small 'lightning' icon that can be selected to make any collection a synced collection.

For reference, I have attached the screenshot of how my collections look and I have highlighted the part where I expect the sync icon to see with a red marker (cantsync.png)

Also, on the top right corner, I see a check mark with the cloud icon. It says everything is synced (cloudsyncstatus.png).

Also, when I try to create a collection, I do not get the check mark which says 'create synced collection'. Please refer to screenshot 'cantcreate.png'.

Does anyone have any ideas ? I scoured the LR forums here and looked at several posts, but to no avail. This seems like a unique problem that only I seem to be having.

Thanks for reading!

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JP Hess

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I agree with Jim Wilde. This is something you are going to have to straighten out with someone from Adobe. It seems to me that the whole system is confused about which catalog should be synchronizing. I don't know how to help you. For instance, if I switch to a different catalog that is one that I'm not synchronizing, I cannot choose to synchronize any collections in that catalog, same as you. So I have no idea what has happened on your system, and have no suggestions on how to fix it.

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JoseB-ISA

Participant

Hi, I also have the same issue...after the upgrade to LR10 I'm no longer able to sync collections nor see previous collections that were to sync, syncing.

JP Hess

Inspiring

When you click on one of your collections, do the images display in the display area in Lightroom, either in grid mode or otherwise?

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seemantad81240089Author

Participating Frequently

Yes, they are displayed in grid view as well as in the bottom of the window in a film strip.

JP Hess

Inspiring

It seems to me that you are attempting to synchronize a collection set, and you cannot do that. It is only possible to synchronize individual collections. A collection can be placed inside of a collection set, but in order to synchronize that collection it will be necessary to open the collection set and locate the individual collection.

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seemantad81240089Author

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I altready clarified this, I am not trying to sync a collection set. My problem is that when I create a collection, the option to sync it does not appear.

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

What have you tried to fix the problem? Things I would try:

1. Close LrC, logout of the Creative Cloud, reboot, log back into the Creative Cloud, retry LrC.

2. If it's still not working, you could try signing out of LrC via the Help menu, then sign back in again to retry.

3. If still not working, try resetting the Lightroom Preferences: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

Although it's probably not relevant, the last screenshot shows you trying to create the new collection in a collection set called Portfolio, but that collection set isn't immediately apparent in the first screenshot.

One other thing, it would be helpful if when attaching screenshots you used the option above the post dialog box to attach screenshots, rather than uploading them separately. That way all the people viewing your post can see the screenshot inline within your post, and not have to download them.

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seemantad81240089Author

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I tried all three. In fact, I tried creating an empty catalog (thinking it was something wrong with my catalog) but that did not help either.

Here, I have a collection set called, 'Temp' and within it, a collection called 'collection1'. The problem is that when creating it, I did not get the 'Create a synced collection option' in the first place. Here is my collection creation dialog:

As you can see, I have all the options except to make it into a synced collection. So I can't create a synced collection.

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

When you created a new catalog, did you switch it to become the synced catalog (only one catalog can be the active sync catalog at a time). If you didn't, then the ability to sync collections wouldn't be present in the new catalog. It might be worth trying that, i.e. enable the new catalog to sync, though that will start downloading all your cloud contents into the new catalog, then open the old catalog and re-enable it to sync again. One other thing you could try first, however, would be to reset the sync data file (you don't lose any cloud content, but it forces LrC to resync with the cloud, after which sync will be paused and you'd need to resume it). It might be enough to prod things back into life again. To reset the sync data, open the Preferences>Lightroom Sync tab, press and hold the Opt key and you'll see the option to "Rebuild Sync Data" appear. Click on that, LrC will close and restart, then the rebuild will occur. When it's finished, resume syncing and see if the problem has corrected itself.

There are some bugs in 10.0 related to collections, so I'm wondering if this is another one. If you can't get it working again (is temporarily rolling back to 9.4 an option?), I suggest you post the details of the problem at the official Adobe feedback site, where you're more likely to get the attention of the engineers: https://feedback.photoshop.com/topics/lightroom-classic/5f5f2093785c1f1e6cc40872

JP Hess

Inspiring

The collections you are displaying seem to be categories. What happens if you open one of those categories such as cityscapes? Is there a collection inside of that category that you can choose to synchronize? In other words, it isn't possible to share a main folder that contains several collections. That is why there isn't the option to share. You need to open one of those categories and chooses an individual collection and share the collection.

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seemantad81240089Author

Participating Frequently

Hi, in this case, 'cityscapes' is not a categories. It is a collection. And it is inside of AdobePortfolio2019 which is a collection set. I have never heard of 'categories' in lightroom, only collections and collection sets. Is there anything that I am missing here ?

Also, I am still not able to create a new collection and set the 'sync to lightroom' check mark on there (cantcreate.png).

Thanks for responding.

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JP Hess

Inspiring

I have never used Adobe Portfolio. Have you created a "standard" collection using Lightroom Classic? Don't create a smart collection, just a regular collection. Sorry, I cannot advise on using Portfolio.

The way it is being displayed, I interpreted it as a collection set, and you need to open that set in order to locate individual collections that can be synchronized. That's is how Lightroom seems to want to manage it. I didn't know that Adobe Portfolio could be managed from within Lightroom.

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