Here is the workflow:
- On the go, I take pictures and import them via Lightroom Mobile into collection A.
- I probably do some edits in Lr Mobile on the go.
- After I have access to my main editing machine (Windows PC), I get the synced collection A in LrC (in "From Lightroom") and I move this collection A to its appropriate collection set.
Okay, so far, so good. Now, to reduce online storage, I'd like to remove these synced photos from the cloud storage, but keep my editings. Right now, the originals are located in my synced folder on my disk, let's call it D:\LrSync, but I also copy these over from the devices (camera, phone, etc.) to a different location on my hard disk, let's call it D:\Photos.
What I want now, is to remove these photos from D:\LrSync and instead tell LrC to find these in D:\Photos, without removing them completely from LrC, because I want to keep the edits.
If I just un-sync the collection they're in, they stay in D:\LrSync and I can remove the photos from the synced photos in normal Lr to save space online. But still, I now have two copies of the photos on my disk, one in D:\LrSync and one in D:\Photos. What I need now, is the re-locate feature that LrC shows when I physically remove the files from the disk. What works is to manually remove the photos from D:\LrSync, without touching the collection in LrC. Then, I get the exclamation mark for all photos in the collection and I am able to select the folder inside D:\Photos. But this is super tedious to do and also there is no folder structure inside D:\LrSync and chances are high to accidentally delete the wrong photos here.
So, what I want would be something like (continuing the workflow from above):
4. Un-sync the collection A in LrC.
5. Select collection A and tell LrC to re-locate the source files in D:\Photos\A, so that it deletes them from D:\LrSync
Is this possible somehow or is manually deleting the photos from D:\LrSync the only option to re-locate them afterwards?
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