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terrin
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December 14, 2023
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Syncing albums and folders between Lightroom and Lightroom Mobile

  • December 14, 2023
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I'm trying to change my work flow from LR Classic to using LR and LR Mobile.  I thought if I organized the albums that have come over to LR from LR Classic, the changes that I made in LR would flow through to LR Mobile, but they haven't.  Is there a way to sync them so that they are the same, without having to recreate them manually on each device?  I'm planning to use LR Mobile on my IPad pro (4th gen, OS 17.1.2) for light editing while traveling, and then complete the work on my desktop (iMac M1 using Ventura 13.6.1)  in LR when I get home.  Thanks for your suggestions.

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    selondon
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    selondonCommunity Expert
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    December 16, 2023

    If you are logged into the same account (and sync is unpaused) on Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Mobile then everything should sync as this is one of the fundamentals of the Lightroom Cloud Ecosystem.

     

    To try to find out where the problem lies, what can you see at http://lightroom.adobe.com/?

     

    Just to get a bit of background, how did you get your Albums from Lr Classic? Sync Collectionz? Migrate? Re-Import?

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    terrinAuthor
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    December 16, 2023

    Thank you for your response.  I got my albums from LR Classic (synced collections).  They came into LR and LR Mobile as albums.  I started to organize them in LR (adding folders and moving things around), but the changes did not flow through to LR Mobile.  I've since stopped syncing from LR Classic and have deleted all previously synced items to start over.  Then I added a couple of folders and albums in LR directly.  Once I did that, both LR and LR Mobile are now in sync.  Unfortunately, deleting the previously synced items ended up deleting the photos out of the LR Classic collections, which I wasn't expecting.  I thought it would just delete the photos that were in the cloud, but leave my collections on my desktop alone. I guess I just have to decide what collections from LR Classic I want to recreate in LR (and LR Classic if I want them there).  I see the potential to stop using LR Classic entirely, since I can access my hard drive now from LR, but am not sure I'm ready to do that yet.

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