Uploading images to Lightroon storage.

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I have lightroom Classic on my PC and am loading my images on to LRC which then connects to Lithroom icloud.  However Icloud is uploading all the images, including those I have rejected for LRC.  I need to find out how to change this or the correct procedure for uploading.  (As I am ending up with stored images in Lightroom icloud that I dont want stored.  What can i read or wathc to learn about this. 

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[F. McLion · Accepted solution]

Not sure if I understand you correctly.

If you use Classic, only collections, and only the ones that you set up for synchronization are uploaded. And, it uploads a Smart Preview only.

What do you mean with icloud?

Please describe what you are trying to achieve, describe the workflow you intend to follow, so we can propose a way to get there.

[F. McLion]

Also, please post the system information found in the help menu (use the insert photo option, don't attach files)

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Okay this is going to be slow obviously my language doesn't quyiet explain what I am oding.  Neither are the responses correct.  Firstly I am using Lightroom Classic 13.4.  I am loading my images via a card reader to Lightroom Classic. I initial will delete unwanted images and upload the rest in to Lightroom Classic, saving the images in external hardrives in my libary..  I also move the images into collections.  I am using Lightroom Version 7.5 to store my Raw images.   What is happening the photos that I "delete and don't include in the libary is also being saved to Lightroom.  I only want to save the images I am saving in the libaries.  Hope that is clearer.   

[F. McLion]

You can try to write in your language (I suggest) and with the integrated translator, everyone will have the option to translate to his language.

What you write is far from clear - sorry.

• You say you import into LrC. OK, then the originals are on your local disk and managed in Classic.
• Then, you say that you use LR to store the RAW, which then normally stores to the cloud.

So which one is true?  

I asked for information on what you are trying to achieve, as from your description it is not clear what you are trying and what your target is.

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When I am refering to language, I am referering to the terminology of computers.   Firstly I am using Lightroom Classic 13.4.  I am loading my images via a card reader to Lightroom Classic. I initially will delete unwanted images and upload the rest in to Lightroom Classic, saving the images in external hardrives in my libary.  Secondly I move the images into collections. 

As well, both is true, I am using Lightroom Version 7.5 to store my Raw images.   What is happening the photos that I "delete and don't include in the libary is also being saved to Lightroom.  I don't understand why this happens.  I only want to save the images I am saving in the libaries.  Hope that is clearer.   I don't know how else to say this.

[Rob_Cullen]

I will also say it is "far from clear" to me also, and I also ask "what your target is".

Know that Lightroom-Classic and Lightroom are two totally different apps. (And neither have anything whatsoever to do with iCloud.)

Lightroom is not a "store" for photos that you catalog in Lightroom-Classic.

Lightroom is not designed or intended to use as a 'backup' of photos imported to Lr-Classic.

Photos you Import to Lr-Classic are stored on a local hard-drive.

You do not "move" photos to a Collection. Imported files remain in the folder where they were imported to. A Collection is only a gathered list of (random) images in the catalog.

Photos you Import to Lightroom are sent (synced) and stored in the Lightroom catalog (that exists in the Lightroom Cloud).

If your aim is to make backups or archives of your images, then adding to Lightroom is not the best way, as Lr-Classic will sync the original back to the catalog resulting in then having two files of the same photo on your hard-drive- One in the Classic import folder, and one in the 'From Lightroom' folder.

"Saving" your images requires a proper Backup system or app that is neither Lr-Classic nor Lightroom.

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Thnaks Rob that is the most useful response that I have got. I will need to revisit what I'm doing and find a different answer. 

[F. McLion]

... or you can try to answer on the question of what your target is (not what you do) and we will guide you how to reach your target ... a very common and working problem-solving technique 😉