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February 3, 2025
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Archive Album Locally does not save edits

  • February 3, 2025
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I exported some TIF photos locally to Cloud and edited them in both Lightroom Desktop Cloud and Lightroom Mobile for iPad.  After editing them, I clicked archive album locally...saved them back to the original local folder and selected the option to replace existing files.  Lightroom Desktop exported the TIF files to the local folder, deleting existing files and removed the Cloud Album and moved the TIF files to the deleted folder.

 

When I opened the exported TIF files in the local folder, it exported the original files that I imported WITHOUT the edits.  Is this the way this feature is supposed to work?  I would have expected it to archive an edited file or the original file with edits, as I understand it, Lightroom can export a TIF file with orginal file and the edits.  If not for the fact that Lightroom moved the edited files to the deleted folder so I was able to restore them back, I would have lost all my edits. 

 

Please advise.  An archive feature that only saves the original file without the edits is absolutely useless.  Sure I can do a custom export and export the orginal + settings but this creates second file instead of overwriting the original file. 

 

I am using Lightroom version 8.1 on an M3Pro MacBook Pro with 18GB RAM 1TB SSD running MacOS Sequoia 15.2.

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Rikk Flohr_Photography
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Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
Community Manager
February 3, 2025

I and another Adobe staffer tested this report and are unable to reproduce the failure using the instructions provided. 

My suspicion is that after you performed your edits in the cloud you failed to sync those edits to the cloud prior to using the Archive Locally functionality.  Normally, you would need to move from your 'cloud-edited-image' to a different image in order to commit the sync to the cloud.  Archive Locally pulls the image from the cloud and not from the interim "happens-to-be-local" copy so it is necessary that your edits have also synced to the cloud in this case.

We would be happy to try to reproduce your failure again if you could provide more detailed instructions. 
 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
cbanados
cbanadosAuthor
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February 3, 2025

So I restored the deleted files and tried archiving locally again and this time it saved the TIFF with the edits.

 

I'm trying to understand why it didn't save it with the edits the first time.  In reading your reply, I agree, it had something to do with the edits on that I did in my iPad was not yet fully synced.  It must have been in the middle of syncing when I archived locally as the files archived to my local drive did not have the edits whereas the files that Lightroom moved to "deleted" had the edits.  If that were the case, then I have to make sure that all files are fully synced BEFORE archiving to local drive.  Is there any indication in Lightroom that a file has an edit in another device that hasn't yet been synced to the cloud?  I edited those files two days ago on my iPad Pro but I have to admit that I did just fire up my Macbook Pro before archiving locally.  

 

 

 

 

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
Community Manager
February 3, 2025

"If that were the case, then I have to make sure that all files are fully synced BEFORE archiving to local drive."

Correct

 

 

"Is there any indication in Lightroom that a file has an edit in another device that hasn't yet been synced to the cloud? "

There can be but only if the iPad goes online with Lightroom Active and notifies the cloud that there are inbound edits. 

 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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