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April 8, 2014
Not Prioritized

P: Ability to sync Smart Collections with Ecosystem Clients

  • April 8, 2014
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Collection synching / Lightroom Mobile is a great addition to Lightroom 5.4. Please extend this functionality to Smart Collections as well.

309 replies

Inspiring
January 3, 2019


My list is short:
Smart Collections!
What would you like to see in 2019?
Monty
johnrellis
Legend
November 29, 2018
"Why wouldn't it happen?"

According to Victoria Bampton (Lightroom Queen), who is well-connected with Adobe, Adobe has decided that "no new cloud features will be added to Lightroom Classic". 

This topic is indeed the single most popular of all the feature requests here.  As the two previously mentioned plugins demonstrate, it's not hard to provide syncing of smart collections.
johnrellis
Legend
November 29, 2018
Two plugins sync LR Classic smart collections with LR CC: Any Source and Smart-Collection Sync.
JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 29, 2018
It won't happen. Adobe has said the Lightroom Classic won't get any new sync features, and if you had read the whole thread, you would have understood that it's not that easy at all either. Smart albums may some day be introduced, of course, but they won't sync with smart collections in Lr Classic.

Maybe this is a solution: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/smart-collection-sync
-- Johan W. Elzenga
Inspiring
November 29, 2018
Adobe hit a big foul ball on this one.  It's is like a telephone that doesn't let you dial the last digit - so close but without it, the whole thing is just plain useless.  Like Randy, I'm also paying for SmugMug to get a solution that should be Adobe > Adobe. 

C'mon guys, let's get this sorted out.
Inspiring
November 2, 2018
C'mon Tom let's get this added!
October 21, 2018
This is by far my biggest issue with Adobe as a company. Publish a roadmap and if a feature doesn't make it while on the roadmap, explain why. Some people suggest Adobe can't because they're public traded but that is just not true. Many publicly traded companies publish roadmaps.
Just Shoot Me
Legend
October 18, 2018
I haven't read the complete thread but if you aren't aware a smart collection is really a Filter that does not change and can't be turned off unless it is deleted. It really isn't a collection in the same way as normal collections.
So IMHO this will never happen. You can use a smart collection to Filter your catalog and then copy those filtered images into a standard collection and sync that with the mobile/web system.
Inspiring
October 17, 2018


Please make a way to sync smart collections between devices. Even Apple has a robust way to sync smart albums (or smart playlists in iTuns for that matter). It's the only feature holding me back from taking an iPad with me while traveling instead of my heavy Macbook Pro.
Inspiring
October 14, 2018
Yes. Please add the ability to sync smart collections to LR Mobile in Lightroom CC Classic.