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December 28, 2021
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Lightroom Classic won't stop syncing

  • December 28, 2021
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I don't know what I did, but Lightroom Classic seems to be in an endless loop of syncing and I can't figure out how to make it stop. Any suggestions?

 

 

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john beardsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 28, 2021

"Lightroom Classic seems to be in an endless loop of syncing"

 

What do you see that makes you say that?

Participating Frequently
December 28, 2021

Pausing the sync works, but when I un-pause the sync, Lightroom is showing multiple copies of each image that's in the All Synced Photographs catalog. I'm trying to simply un-sync all photos and now I'm getting two, three, four copies of photographs in my folder. It's churning through data and I don't need multiple copies of a these photos that I no longer need synced.

 

 

Participating Frequently
December 31, 2021

Are these virtual copies? Maybe post a screeenshot showing these photos.

If you really want to unsycn all photos, go through each synced collection and unsync it. Then if anything is left in All Synced Photos, delete them from there.


I'm not clear on what exactly you need me to take a screen shot of that will help solve this. Here's more detail. Tell me what step of all of this you want to see a screen shot of.

 

  1. In the upper right corner of Lightroom I have the sync paused so the cloud symbol has a little pause symbol on the right.
  2. I navigate to the Catalog called all Synced Photographs and right click.
  3. In the drop down I select Remove from all synced photographs
  4. A dialog box appears telling me that the one photo will be removed from Lightroom ecosystem but not deleted from the desktop catalog; Images will be removed when Creative Cloud sync is enabled.
  5.  The selected image flies up into the cloud symbol and a new dialog box opens where I can resume syncing. 

 

This is where the trouble starts. If I resume syncing it starts making multiple virtual copies of the 1934 images that are currently in the All Synced Photographs catalog.

 

All I want is for this nonsense to stop. I'm finished with trying to make sync work across different devices. I just want the desktop Lightroom Classic to work without creating endless virtual copies that will take endless amount of time for me cull.

Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 28, 2021

You should be able to click on the Cloud icon to turn sync off (or "paused")

(Re: my screen-clip: My catalog is not synced- currently working on a travel laptop)

 

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .