New edits overwritten by originals on sync

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Lightroom Classic October 2022/Lightroom CC.
My original images are in catalogs in Lightroom Classic. I sync smart previews to CC, and edit most on a tablet PC using Lightroom CC. Working fine for years.
 
While updating Lightroom desktop to October 2022 version tonight, it apparently lost track of "which is new" and for my most recent edit batch believes my originals in the catalog are newer than my corresponding CC edits (1 week's detailed work).
 
Rather than syncing CC editing work "home" to the catalog, it synced the original unedited photos from classic to CC.
 
Since I could see in Lightroom classic that it apparently did not sync the right way, I backed up the Lightroom CC user data folder on my tablet PC before starting Lightroom CC. That was a very good idea - when starting Lightroom CC I immediately lost all my edits, now overwritten by the originals from Lightroom Classic.
 
Long story short - I have my copied Lightroom CC user data folder. I now have paused syncing, restored the old copy of the user data folder, and can see that I still locally have every single one of my edits there on my tablet PC, as long as I don't enable syncing again. 
 
Any idea how I can cure Lightroom Classic from thinking its 2 weeks old original version of the images are more recent than my Lightroom  edits, so I can "sync them in the right direction"? 
 
Fingers crossed -
Thanks,
Jesper

js999dk · Answer

An update from OP as this issue approaches it's 1 year anniversary:

The problem with Lightroom Classic overwriting new edits when syncing is still happening consistently with approx 70% of pictures I edit in Lightroom CC/Lightroom Desktop. It is the most annoying and severe issue I have ever had with the Adobe programs, and it is a huge waste of time. Yet, so far no remedy or fix.

This is how I work around it - I hope this is helpful to others, and that it may help adobe trouble-shooting:

Import photos into Lightroom Classic catalogue. Do some edits or star ratings.
Check that your edits have synced to the cloud, by opening Lightroom in a web browser (good trick for seeing what is actually in your cloud sync!)
Close Lightroom classic
Open Lightroom Desktop (aka Lightroom CC) and wait for the sync to finish, to have the first version of the images available here.
Edit images as needed. I use healing brush and AI masks extensively
Work-around: press the history button (the watch) on the edited pictures, and save a "named version" - I name mine "edit" for simplicity
Open Lightroom in a web browser, and confirm that these latest edits were synced to the cloud correctly.
Now start Lightroom Classic again, and as it starts syncing, you can see live in your Lightroom web browser version how the old versions from Lightroom Classic overwrites most of the newly edited ones in the cloud, and the same wrong versions will soon after be in Lightroom Desktop (aka Lightroom CC) too. Oh how I hate this...
Work-around part 2: in Lightroom Desktop (aka CC) now for each overwritten image, select the history ("watch") button again, and click on the version named "edit" we saved previously. The right version is back, and now syncs correctly to both browser version and Classic.

Adobe, we are paying you lots of good money for this software. The above is ridiculous and should be possible to debug and fix. I am happy to help if needed. 1 year of this soon.

Jesper.

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