P: Ability to sync Lightroom Classic keywords with the Lightroom Ecosystem

Hi Patrick, please try to use the filter function in LR mobile, here you should see your keywords even at night and without internet access 🙂

This is appalling. I have a 50k image database that has been keyworded painstakingly over ten years and I use the keywords to find images. When I try to use Lightroom CC mobile I cannot see the keywords. That makes the product virtually useless in my view. It is like selling a car that has no lights. Yes, you can drive it but only in the daytime!!

Sylvain, in my humble opinion:

Commercial ? Force people to go full cloud
—> obviously (And I’m tempted to use caps lock)

Resources ? Cost to much to implement
—> I don’t believe it. The could switch to LR CC

Strategic ?
—> Yes, minimal sync capabilities for Classic to push towards LR CC “full cloud”. My guess would be to make the switch to another app as difficult as possible.

Store and dilute version improvements and they announcement effects for later.
—> Not in this case. It might be the case for LR CC and mobile. They must have a roadmap for bigger functions but some updates come with almost no new features.

Of course it is still the same technical problem. Why they decided not to solve it is anyones guess. Strategic, too much work, commercial, who knows. 

If the issue is not technical anymore, what is it ?  - Commercial ? Force people to go full cloud - Resources ? Coast to much to implement.- Strategic ? Store and dilute version improvements and they announcement effects for later. - .... ? 

That « tcechnical » issue was the first explanation why they would not implement keyword sync. Now it’s kind of official the won’t add sync functions to LR Classic, period.

If hierarchical keyword is the problem, I would prefer to have the choice in lightroom classic preferences to use flat keywording, convert all my catalog to flat keyword and then have the ability to sync keyword on CC.

Keywording is typically something you would like to do when taking the train or waiting your sandwich.

Hi John,
thanks for quick answer. Will search if there is a new answer to this question. 
I am aware that this is the Sync thread. The missing sync of keywords or the missing overall sync is the reason why I consider the switch from Classic to CC. Adobe is improving LR CC more and more and meanwhile it is quite good and perhaps a possibility to get rid of all these sync trouble.
🙂
Peter

No. It's purely a local cache and you can't do anything with it. But maybe start another thread - this is about keywords failing to sync.

Meanwhile I consider to switch from LR CC Classic to LR CC, then all is in sync. I have already bought the 1TB plan, but I would like to have a good backup of all my post processing steps. I mean a catalog similar to LR classic. Last year Victoria mentioned in Adobe forum that there is a local cache. Is this enough as a backup?