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How to troubleshoot sync errors?

Participant ,
Oct 20, 2017 Oct 20, 2017

Hi,

I installed the new Lightroom Classic CC and now experience syncing errors. A collection that should have 370 photos shows up in LR CC (mobile and web) as having only 318. I can see sync errors under preferences, but don't know where to go from there. It just says "Error".

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Any idea?

On Windows 10, if that matters

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Henrik

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Community Beginner , Nov 24, 2017 Nov 24, 2017

I found that, in the library, each synced photo has this icon in the top right corner2017-11-24 12.25.21 pm.png.
Photos stuck with syncing error has this icon instead 2017-11-24 12.26.24 pm.png, if you double click on this icon, Lightroom retries to sync that image, an at least in my case, it works.
The problem now is that there is no option to restart the sync process for all the images with Error. You have to find them and double click one by one.
Luckily there is, under Catalog, on the left, a smart group named "All Sync errors" (or something lik

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Explorer ,
Dec 08, 2019 Dec 08, 2019

So far all I've found is either remove them from all synced collections and add them back in again, or uncheck sync for any collections the photos are in, remove them from All Sync Errors, and then recheck the sync for the collection. If you remove them from All Sync Errors without unsyncing the collections first then they get removed from all the collections as well.

 

Ridiculously convoluted for something that used to be a simple click on one icon. 🙄

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New Here ,
Jan 28, 2020 Jan 28, 2020

Hi, im with a similar problem...

im using the Photoshop Lightroom cc 3.1the most actual at this time.

every time I open and is connect the lightroom stay syncing, so this is normal, but i have 5 files in syncing forever.

I tried to filter the syncing files and 0 photos to be synced, ath the smarthphone is the same 0 to be synced.

please if anyone stay passing for something similar and resolved help me.


when I filteredwhen I filteredat the smartphoneat the smartphoneon macon macthe warningthe warning

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 27, 2022 Aug 27, 2022

Same problem: I have 6 tha talways end up with sync error. If I remove them from LR and put them back, they sync but always end up in error. Please fix Adobe or at leats give us a workaround!

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 10, 2025 Jun 10, 2025
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I regularly have photos getting stuck syncing from LRc to LR, where I use them for sharing with family and friends. My latest problem was 21 specific photos out of a series of 170 from a birthday party (made with different cameras, so the files weren't even all the same). I tried everything I have tried earlier, but nothing worked, then  FINALLY I got something to work: When I created virtual copies of the 21 stubborn photos INSIDE the shared folder, the ORIGINALS immediately synced. Not the copies, but I didn't want two copies in the shared folder, so that was fine. Don't know if this works for others, but it's worth trying.

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