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Assistance with Syncing Keywords from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom (Cloud)

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April 5, 2024
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I primarily use Lightroom Classic for organizing my photo and video library. I have diligently assigned keywords to categorize and manage my media efficiently.

My intention is to share my media with others through Lightroom (cloud) while ensuring that the keywords are synced along with the files. This is crucial for facilitating easy search and retrieval of specific photos or videos.

But the keywords are not syncing from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom (cloud) automatically.

also:
Videos require manual importation into Lightroom (cloud), as automatic syncing doesn't include them.

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ScanVT

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I think I found a solution!! The latest version of Lightroom Classic doesn't sync keywords even once anymore, and I tried everything I could think of to work around this huge problem. After all, what is the use of having 50,000 images at your fingertips if you can't find what you're looking for? Try this: Open Lightroom Classic. Open LR on your desktop as well. Physically drag and drop images from Classic to LR. Voila! All your keywords will be there. No, they don't sync, but that's ok with me. Good luck!!

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alexandref22739761

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I believe you can also sync the keywords from the file, if you are saving
them on a xmp file on Ligthroom.
So you create the keytwords on classic, save the XMP file and push it into
the Lightroom (not classic).
Still, I wish Adobe would sync it automatically...
Best regards,

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Alexandre Fagundes de Fagundes

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JohanElzenga

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@alexandref22739761 No, that used to work but it doesn't work anymore. The suggestion from @ScanVT is not a good solution either, unfortunately. What this does is upload the original to Lightroom, and so the original will be synced to the cloud! You'll soon run out of cloud space if you have the 20GB plan...

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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lisel23588484Author

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I'm having a few problems with synchronize images from lightroom classic to lightroom online.

What I ultimately want is photos and video's + keywords from lightroom classic to lightroom online.

When I make a collection of the images I want in the cloud (and I check the box with sync to lightroom)

Sometimes some images do show up in lightroom online (3 or 4 photos of a larger collection) the videos don't show up in lightroom online anyway.

Extra info: my catalog contains 9660 images in total.

It says I already have 10,025 images synced, but there is nothing in my lightroom online... I can't delete that either. (I only have some documents in the adobe cloud)

jane-e

Community Expert

@lisel23588484

Using the Community, where you posted, is for questions about the forums.

I've merged your post with your previous post from April 5, where your question has been answered. Please continue in this thread if you have further questions.

Jane

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Syncing of keywords between Lightroom Classic and Lightroom cloud is not possible. You can get the current Lightroom Classic keywords into the cloud as a one-time-only upload when you first sync an image, but apart from that there is no subsequent syncing of new or altered keywords.

To get this one time only upload, do the following.

Step 1: Make sure you do not have any smart previews yet for the selected images.

Step 2: Select the images in Lightroom Classic and choose 'Metadata - Save Metadata to Files'.

Step 3: Add the selected images to a synced collection.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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alexandref22739761

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Hi Johan, thanks for the information. Since you sent this last April and its been a few months now, is it still the same?

I mean, Lightroom Classic and the cloud dont sync the keywords?

Best regards

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

It's actually worse. In the past, you could 'upload' keywords from Lightroom Classic to the cloud once. They did not sync (i.e. changes made in both directions), but at least you could get them in the cloud using a certain procedure when the image was synced the very first time. That is also no longer possible.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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