New Lightroom Classic Catalogue sync with Adobe Cloud and existing uploads from LR Mobile

[homebrandcola]

I am trying to work out what would happen to my sync'ed up photos in the cloud if I changed what Catalogue I sync.

I have a laptop, with a catalogue called 'Barry' - I have photos loaded into LrC which then sync with the cloud, and I edit on my iPad etc.
On the iPad I also directly load in photos, and they are sync'ed up to the Cloud. They are then sync'ed  back down to my laptop and my catalogue Barry. The original DNG / RAW files went into Lightroom Mobile.

If I change Barry for a different a catalogue on my laptop, Bruce.

What I know the photos that were loaded into Barry will be removed from the cloud - but what happens to the photos I loaded into the Cloud through Lightroom Mobile on my iPad? Do they also get deleted?

Do the photos already in the Cloud get downloaded into Bruce?
I have paid for extra storage in Creative Cloud, and have gotten value out of it. But if I need to retain the original Barry LrC catalogue forever, I am going to be slightly annoyed. That reliance on that catalogue seems restrictive, and counterintuitive to using Lightroom Mobile on an iPad and loading images into the Cloud directly.

[Just Shoot Me]

My onlu comment is You should have ONLY ONE CATALOG and All your images should be IN that ONE Catalog.

[homebrandcola]

Thanks for replying, that doesn't answer the question of, if photos are uploaded to Creative Cloud througth LrM, do they also get removed when changing catalogue syncing in LrC.

[JohanElzenga · Accepted solution]

If you change the synced catalog, then all the online photos will be downloaded into that new catalog as new originals. Nothing will be deleted.

[DdeGannes · Accepted solution]

At Johan (I have a laptop, with a catalogue called 'Barry' - I have photos loaded into LrC which then sync with the cloud, and I edit on my iPad etc.) including the smart-previews that were synced from the previous catalog?