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Your original Title, Question.
"When I delete a photo I have copied from the cloud into my HD it deletes the photo on the cloud."
First how did this image get to the Adobe Cloud system of LR Mobile (Mobile app for iOS and Android), Classic (Traditional desktop version) or the new Lightroom Cloud Centric version? Was it imported into the LR Mobile app, like a phone picture?
Then in a reply you made to another ACP user you said.
"When I delete a synched photo in the catalog section, it actually deletes the same photo on my hard drive."
Yes if you are in LR Classic and you have selected "All Synced Photographs" the images that are being shown to you are all the images that are on your hard drive that you have synced through collections withe the LR Web/Mobile system. If you Delete from disk, Or Even Remove that image from the catalog (without deleting it from your hard drive), it removes any reference to that image and removes it, Deletes it from the Web/Mobile system. This is by design. LR Classic is the Master of those images. But you should get this dialog box that is asking you a question.
It states that whatever number of photos you have selected, 1-100-whatever, will be removed from All Synced Collections and from LR photos on Creative Cloud. You have 2 options, OK and Cancel. There is also a check box to not show this box again "Don't show again". Maybe at one time you check that box and not you aren't getting that warning?
If you Delete a image from LR Classic that is synced it will remove them from the cloud system.
you need to explain exactly what you are doing.
OK, so if I read you correctly here is a procedure I follow. My main, at home, the desktop application is Lightroom Classic which I have synced to my Adobe a/c.
I have the following mobile devices also synced to my Adobe a/c, my two iPads and my iPhone and my Android Smartphone. One of the iPads and the iPhone is used by my wife, she only uses this to access my files and does not do editing.
When we travel, which is several times each year, I use my iPad and my Camera which I shoot in Raw format, the files from the Camera are copied to the iPad and all the files get synced to the Adobe Cloud storage.
When I return home and reboot my desktop the original files get synced to my desktop and get stored in a folder on my desktop, I use the default for the system. After I am sure the files are safely stored on the desktop I pause the sync on the desktop. Then I proceed to create a new folder within my hard drive which is in date order in my folder system, I use a temporary file to import so that the folder shows in my regular folder structure. I then select the files from the mobile device which is in the default location and drag them into the folder created folder. The files are now on my regular storage and imported into Lightroom Classic. I then use the mobile device to delete the original files from the Adobe Cloud storage.
The files are removed from my iPad and the Cloud storage freeing up space within the iPad and Cloud. I can then proceed to create a collection on my desktop and sync to the cloud if I wish to share. (The synced collections do not use any of your allocated storage on the cloud. I can then turn on the sync on the desktop.
See the screen capture.
In my experience- If you [REMOVE] a photo from a (Classic) COLLECTION that is synced, it will remove it from a Lightroom ALBUM on a Mobile device (and from the Lr Cloud ecosystem), but the file stays in the desktop FOLDER where it downloaded.
So select a photo in a synced Collection and R-Click: [Remove]. Choose [No].
"if I delete these photos from my LR app on my phone will they be deleted on my computer?"
If they are still referenced in a Synced Classic Collection- then Yes!
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