I am struggling to understand how to use these apps together with limited space on my hard drive or if I can. I am using an external SSD drive. I would like to know what other people do.Based on a lot of reading and talking to support multiple times this is what I am gleaning:If you use creative cloud as primary storage with LRCC you cannot sync it to LR without having an additional copy on your hard drive. You cannot sync specific albums from LRCC to LR. You can sync a LR collection however that would mean your hard drive is your primary location or you go nuts with having moving files around (or has someone figured this out?)If you store original copies from LRCC on an external drive you cannot use them as your LR photos."Specify location for LR sync'd images" has no effect when syncing LRCC to LR. This is the other question actually. Creative cloud does not manage storage like iCloud or Google Drive. It does not automatically remove a file from your HD if it as not been used recently. It doesn't appear that I can selectively sync different folders. (Not referring to the photos in LRCC.)Adobe doesn't empower their support people with enough information about the products.So has anyone found a solution? Because I cannot figure out the purpose of all three apps (LR, LRCC, PS) plus a TB of data in an age where SSD internal drives are so expensive and impractical. These are the only solutions I see so far:Use LR CC as storage with backup on my external and PS as my editing tool and forget about LR completely. Keywording as I have known it, galleries, books, and printing multiple images on a single sheet (easily) would be gone.Dump the TB subscription and increase or get another cloud service that will automatically manage storage. Then sync collections to LRCC. Pain because I have no access to all images on CC but I do on the other cloud service. Unsure if I could use the cloud storage for my primary photos or if they would be downloaded every time I open LR.

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Limited SSHD users: How do you use LR sync with LRCC?

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June 12, 2019
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I am struggling to understand how to use these apps together with limited space on my hard drive or if I can. I am using an external SSD drive. I would like to know what other people do.

Based on a lot of reading and talking to support multiple times this is what I am gleaning:

If you use creative cloud as primary storage with LRCC you cannot sync it to LR without having an additional copy on your hard drive.
You cannot sync specific albums from LRCC to LR. You can sync a LR collection however that would mean your hard drive is your primary location or you go nuts with having moving files around (or has someone figured this out?)
If you store original copies from LRCC on an external drive you cannot use them as your LR photos.
"Specify location for LR sync'd images" has no effect when syncing LRCC to LR. This is the other question actually.
Creative cloud does not manage storage like iCloud or Google Drive. It does not automatically remove a file from your HD if it as not been used recently. It doesn't appear that I can selectively sync different folders. (Not referring to the photos in LRCC.)
Adobe doesn't empower their support people with enough information about the products.

So has anyone found a solution? Because I cannot figure out the purpose of all three apps (LR, LRCC, PS) plus a TB of data in an age where SSD internal drives are so expensive and impractical. These are the only solutions I see so far:

Use LR CC as storage with backup on my external and PS as my editing tool and forget about LR completely. Keywording as I have known it, galleries, books, and printing multiple images on a single sheet (easily) would be gone.
Dump the TB subscription and increase or get another cloud service that will automatically manage storage. Then sync collections to LRCC. Pain because I have no access to all images on CC but I do on the other cloud service. Unsure if I could use the cloud storage for my primary photos or if they would be downloaded every time I open LR.

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Jao vdL

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I think the important question here is "what are you trying to accomplish?"

It is possible to use Classic and Cloud LR together but you want to think the workflow through a bit. Going purely cloud is quite prohibitive for many since LR Cloud misses most essential features. For the overwhelming majority of photographers, using Classic as the main program and using LR cloud/mobile just to shoot some iPhone raw images that sync down into your catalog or to just selectively sync a few collections up to the cloud as smart previews so you can edit on an iPad is the best solution. If you are trying to limit how much local storage you use, going LR cloud with all your images and locally using Classic will not work as you found out as Classic needs a local copy and indeed downloads every cloud image. Most folks using Classic will simply use multiple externals (you don't need to have them connected all the time!) and keep the catalog and usually a set of the most recent images one is working on on the internal SSD

So what are you trying to do?

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michanne5Author

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I want to have a cloud version and a local/external drive version of every photo or at least photos from the last few years. I can do this with LRCC alone but I lose the features of LR classic or I am encountering bizarre behavior that I don't understand. That is why I am paying for the TB of space which is more than adequate. It would have been nice if they are all connected to the same ecosystem. I have tried syncing individual collections years ago and it got messy. I am on my laptop regularly now because I am freelance but if I am using a company laptop for work I want nothing to do with a laptop on my free time so I work with photos almost exclusively on an iPad for months at a time. Thus I want a seamless system. Like my mail, calendar, documents, etc.

DdeGannes

Community Expert

So you need to make a feature request in the appropriate Adobe Forum for Lightroom Classic to sync full sized files to the Creative Cloud storage instead of smart previews. Then you will need to pay for additional storage in the cloud and physical HDD storage on your computers.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.

Just Shoot Me

Legend

I only sync SOME (Not All) images with the Mobile, iOS and Android, version of LR so they show up on my phone and on the LR Web system. I do nothing with the Cloud Centric Desktop Lightroom version.

I rarely take images with my phone and when I do I do not associate them with the mobile version of LR.

dj_paige

Legend

Given Adobe's current naming schemes, is the title of this thread really this:

How do you use Lightroom Classic sync with Lightroom?

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michanne5Author

Inspiring

I would have most likely gotten a link to the help document which I have read and is mildly help I want best practices and ideas from users.

JP Hess

Inspiring

I use a desktop Windows 10 computer with Lightroom Classic installed on it. I actually also have Lightroom CC installed, but use it very little. My main drive is an internal SSD, and that is where my applications are installed. I have two internal hard drives attached, and that is where all of my images are stored. I share collections with Lightroom CC. If I travel I will occasionally download directly to Lightroom CC, but my main program of use is Lightroom Classic. My mode of operation isn't going to help you, I realize. I have very little regard for Lightroom CC as a primary or main Lightroom application for my particular purposes.

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