P: Desktop: Syncing Issues when Originals are stored on a NAS

Rikk I am still experiencing this issue.  My problems were never resolved.  Lightroom is basically unusable until I disconnect my network drive, which of course defeats the purpose of storing my originals there.

My laptop drive is relatively small.  My NAS drive is big.  I'm happily paying for 1TB of Adobe Cloud Storage, but I feel uncomfortable having ~40k pictures of my family not backed up somewhere else.

If Adobe would just make a small program to sync pictures to a drive that would be ideal.  Lightroom is simply broken in this regard.

I have confirmed I am running on Lightroom 2.3 (May 3rd, 2019) macOS.  It appears to be able to move 1-10  pictures every time the program starts before it locks up.

Hello, I had the same issue, even with much less pictures (on 2.3). I have since disabled the "store original locally" because Lightroom became completely unuseable: opening 1 picture for editing would take 20 minutes while "syncing" (which stopped progressing).

Sometimes, I managed to get it to resync by pasting whatever edit-settings onto the photos that were not yet synced. It seems that this action re-activated the syncing progress but it was overall very sluggish. I had the impression that it was a bandwidth-related problem, meaning that I think Lightroom could manage to upload to the cloud and to the NAS at the same time.

Having a NAS-based copy of all my pictures is very important to me - As the OP, I'm using a Synology NAS; A feature request I have would be to allow for a Background sync directly between a NAS and the Creative Cloud Library.

Greetings to all on this thread. I have been thus far unable to duplicate this issue. Is anyone still experiencing this since the 2.3 update?

Can you get me a screenshot of your ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom CC/ folder?

Rikk, I hope you received my email yesterday.

Lightroom CC version: 2.2.1 [ 20190312-1546-e438717 ] (Mar 13 2019)

@7764659 - can you go to Help>System Info... and reply with your exact installed Lightroom Version number?

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> In the OPs case that shouldn’t have any effect on the ability to sync a collection if the originals are stored on a NAS Drive I’d have thought? Unless maybe the NAS is in sleep mode or some other idle state?

Yep, it should be "just another storage location" just as if it's an external drive, although they can suffer from LAN connection issues with the amount of data being passed not only up to the cloud but also across the local network to the NAS, and there's an extra layer of NAS software in the mix too. There seems to be a pattern here worth investigating, as sync shouldn't just fail, even if it were to be slower.

Thanks, yes. You reminded me. But the original doesn’t get modified. Just a working copy of it. Which is kept in the catalog.
However. In the OPs case that shouldn’t have any effect on the ability to sync a collection if the originals are stored on a NAS Drive I’d have thought? Unless maybe the NAS is in sleep mode or some other idle state?
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