Lightroom Classic Syncing with Cloud

[MerkurNJ]

Hi - hopefully somebody here can help. I use Lightroom Classic on a desktop and have over 200,000 photos in the library. I've used this for over 10 years and it has performed well through multiple upgrades.  I am transitioning to an iPhone from my SLR and trying to set up Lightroom correctly. My first problem was that my 20 GB allowance on the cloud was exceeded, so synching wasn't happening between the iPhone, iPad and Desktop.  Right or wrong, I went into the 'All synced photosk folder and deleted all those photos.   The way I understand it, this does not delete the originals, and I backed up all the synced photos before deleting anyway - just in case.  I now have the desktop where I want it, with zero synced photos and the cloud has 20 gig available.

What I want to do is when I go on a photo shoot or vacation I want to sync just those photos with the cloud,  process them in the field on my iPad and when I get back, sync them with the desktop and clear out the cloud.  When I open Lightroom on my phone right now, I see that uploading is paused with over 7000 photos pending.  

My question is:  How do I clear out those pending photographs? I know that when I click 'resume syncing', all of those photos will be uploaded to the cloud and probably exceed the 20 GB again, and I'll be back where I started. Is there a video or an idiots guide to on how to do this?

[Sean McCormack]

Firstly, photos that are synced from Lightroom Classic to the cloud are Smart Previews that don't count against your 20GB. the 20GB comes from all files added from mobile and from the Lightroom (not Classic) desktop app. Removing those latter photos from the cloud will delete them from the apps. 

To prevent syncing, each collection involved has to have sync turned off in the Collections folder.