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September 27, 2022
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Converting from Lr to LrC

  • September 27, 2022
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I am in the process of converting from LR Cloud to Lightroom Classic. I have about 1TB of files on the cloud. Whats the easiest way to download those files to my storage drive for LrC along with and edits/presets. Thanks

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Jim Wilde
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September 27, 2022

Simple....enable sync in the LrC catalog and all files already in the cloud will automatically download to your local hard drive and be added to the LrC catalog (and will contain all the edit info from the cloud). The issue is where and how they are organised in folders on the local system: to sort that out, BEFORE enabling sync in LrC, open the LrC Preferences>Lightroom Sync tab and you will find there the option to specify the location for the downloaded images (if you do not do that, LrC will use the default location which is an obscure folder in the user's AppData folder). There is also an option to have the downloaded files stored in one of LrC's standard capture-date based dated folder schemes. You would probably want to use both options to set things up as you would prefer, then you can enable sync.

jones75gAuthor
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September 27, 2022

Thanks for the response. I am converting the cvloud storage to a local external SSD. Will the sync tab automatically move/copy files onto that SSD?

Jim Wilde
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September 27, 2022

once they are downloaded to the external drive can i now delete them from the cloud? is there anything i need to do to NOT delete them from the external drive?

 


Yes you can delete them from the cloud once they are downloaded into LrC AND you have started to back them up regularly. Many users would then re-sync them back to the cloud, because LrC only uploads smart previews of the originals, and those smart previews do not count against the cloud storage allowance. SPs can be viewed and edited on your mobile devices just like your original files, and the edits would sync back to the originals in your LrC catalog.

 

Deleting from the cloud will NOT delete them from LrC.