"Store Album Locally" doesn't save files into an album?

This is fundamental to how Lightroom Cloudy works. You are not supposed to interact with the locally stored image copies. The fact that you can locally store them is only meant to give you quick access in the program. NOT to allow you to work on the images outside of Lightroom. You should only interact with your images through the interface. This is foundational to the program. Lightroom Classic is the version of Lightroom where you interact with your images as stored locally more directly. Cloudy is NOT the newer version. Classic is usually updated earlier or at the same time with new features and is what basically every professional uses. Cloudy is for people that do not need all the features of Classic and like the fact that the catalog and images are all in the cloud and look the same everywhere you open the app. Cloudy is just different and uses the cloud as the authorative version of your images. Classic uses the local storage as the authorative copies.

I am also having this issue and am extremely frustrated by it. All I want to do is migrate my folders from one creative cloud account to another and retain the folder structure. Why on earth this is so hard to do is beyond me. Seems like something that could be done with a flip of a switch somewhere on an adobe server. Seriously reconsidering my subscription. 

I'm also finding this extremely frustrating. If I want to migrate my library from one account to another, or even just export individual folders, there's no way at all to do this? I can only export/migrate files by date, but if I reimport them I have to start all over again re-titling them, regrouping them into folders and reorganizing their placement within those folders? 
I basically have to lose hours and hours of work because you guys couldn't be bothered to include a simpler way to download/migrate individual folders? I've already spent hours trying to figure out a way to do this and still have not found a satisfactory result. I'm very aggravated and disappointed in the share/export/import functions of this software. 

I believe you misunderstand how Lightroom works. Lightroom is a non-destructive editor, which means that the edits (and other things like added keywords) are stored separately from the image. If you need to use the image for something, you will have to export it with the edits applied to it. That is the ‘Save to’ menu.

‘Store Album Locally’ is not meant to give you access to the images for use in other applications, because if you open such an image from this local storage, you would not see the edits. It is only meant as a backup.

Hi yuvalrooz,

We're sorry that finding some limitations in the Lightroom desktop local storage options.

It would really help if you can share this feedback here: Lightroom Desktop (Cloud-based) | Photoshop Family Customer Community

As this forum is monitored by our engineers, and they might look into this for future releases.

We need more helping hands like you, as we're building towards a better user experience.

Thanks,

Akash