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annem48734012
Inspiring
April 14, 2018
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mobile downloads.lrdata

  • April 14, 2018
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I have a huge problem with mobile download.lrdata. I have a SSD on my laptop, and a harddrive for all my photos. I use lightroom mobile and the problem accures because I have had original photos on my Ipad.

When syncing in LR classic mobile downloads.lrdata keep putting pictures on my SSD and there is not enough room for alle the photos. I have relocated the location i preferences, but syncing the mobile downloads still keeps landing on the SSD.

How do I resolve this issue, so I can sync my photos with my Ipad, but not getting the originals on the SSD and where do I find the photos downloading to mobile downloads.lrdata in the sky??

I have tryed to delete LR mobile on the Ipad and launch it again, but that didn't work either.

Best regards

Anne

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Correct answer Jim Wilde

At the bottom of the Folders Panel, just above the Collections Panel, you should see an entry similar to the bottom 4 entries in my screenshot. Expand that entry and you should find an "Imported Folders" folder, which is actually a link to the Mobile Downloads folder. Click on that "Imported Photos" folder and all the images will appear in the Grid, from where you can select them and drag and drop them to a different drive (either all in one go or a selection at a time if you want to move them to separate folders).

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JohanElzenga
JohanElzenga
Community Expert
April 27, 2018

The 'mobile downloads.lrdata' file shows up as a 'device' in Lightroom. Like a separate disk. You can handle pictures in it in the same way as you can handle pictures anywhere else in Lightroom. So select all the pictures currently in that device in Lightroom, then drag & drop them into a normal folder on your hard disk in the Lightroom folder panel. That will move the pictures from the SSD to the hard disk.

Next, set the destination for new downloads in the preferences like Sahil Chawla described.

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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annem48734012Author
Inspiring
April 27, 2018

Hi Johan

how do I find the "device" in LR on the computer?

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annem48734012Author
Inspiring
April 27, 2018

annem48734012  wrote

The harddrive is on when I use sync. Otherwise it can be disconnected. 

That may be the problem. Sync is always on, even when nothing is synched. That means that Lightroom always needs to designate a place to download new images, for if and when they arrive. When you turn off that P: drive, Lightroom will default back to the SSD for these downloads (and apparently it does not change back when the P: drive is connected again).


I stop the sync i LR before I close LR, so the syns is not on. The harddrive has not been disconnected after I changed the Preferences, and have never put anything on the P-drive only an info.lua (and I don't know what that is)

Sahil.Chawla
Community Manager
Sahil.ChawlaCommunity Manager
Community Manager
April 19, 2018

Hi Anne,

Have you tried going into Lightroom's Preferences > Lightroom Sync and change the location by checking "Specify location for Lightroom CC ecosystem's images" ?

Regards,

Sahil

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    annem48734012Author
    Inspiring
    April 27, 2018

    Yes, but it still puts the photos in the old folder, and not in the new one. I have tryed it several times

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