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January 14, 2025
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syncing multiple folders from Lightroom to Lightroom Cloud

  • January 14, 2025
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In my local computer ( Laptop ) i have set multiple folders with different naming as ALBUM . I need to upload all these - the way i have in my local computer - to Lightroom Cloud. so that i can all the folders-subfolders-photo in my "cloud" too. Is this possible or how is there any workaround to make this possible. 

KINDLY check the screenshot . I have Adobe Lightroom version 8.1 working in Mac Sonoma 14.5 .

Advance Thanks  for the help.  

 

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Rob_Cullen
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January 14, 2025

There is no easy way in one step to do this in Lightroom (desktop).

'Folders' on a laptop hard-drive are entirely different to 'Folders' in a Lr catalog. There is no correlation. OS Folders are physical. Lr Folders are virtual.

In Lightroom (Desktop) 'Folders' are only a way of collecting Albums together in one group of a parent 'folder'. 

 

I suspect you will need to-

1) Import one laptop Folder of images to Lr selecting [Add to Album] in the import dialog- where you can create new Albums

2) Repeat Step#1  for each laptop Folder of images.

3) Then arrange the Lr Albums into parent 'Folders'.

 

 

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
ak-rAuthor
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January 24, 2025

Thanks. Let me try this .