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sam.henri
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May 13, 2021
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Download full size RAW data for a hole album

  • May 13, 2021
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Hello everyone,

 

I just got my new Samsung Galaxy Tab s7 and I planned to work on the tablet as well as lightroom classic cc on the desktop. 

The problem I have is that from the moment I import the images into Lightroom Mobile on the tablet they are moved to the cloud. That would be fine but from that moment on Mobile uses the cloud flies only. 

 

I want to edit the full-size RAW and not the smart preview while I'm offline.

 

I turned the "only download smart-previews" option off.

The only way to store the original full-size file on the tablet is to open each file individually. 

 

Is there a way to download all full-size files from an entire album at once? 

 

Stay healthy, Sam

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Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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May 14, 2021

This is how I understand your situation! (I might be wrong!)

For Lightroom-Classic and Lightroom-Mobile versions you will need a subscription to the Photography Plan (20Gb)

When you Import (Add) camera files to the Samsung Device (running Lightroom-Mobile for Android) you will use the option-

"Store Locally - Select this option to locally store the photos contained in the album you are in."

Without personal experience I presume this means- "edit the full-size RAW ...while I'm offline." with the Samsung Galaxy.

Lightroom-Classic, when the SYNC option is turned on, will automatically download, from the Cloud, (a copy) of the Full-size raw files to the hard-drive where they will always be available to Edit in LrC at any time.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/au/lightroom-cc/using/work-with-lightroom-mobile-android.html

 

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
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sam.henriAuthor
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May 14, 2021

Hey Wobert,

 

the way you explained it would also be the way I would understand the program. 

 

But the problem is that when you import images into Lightroom CC (on the Tablet or Desktop) the original file loads into the cloud. After that Lightroom Mobile always uses the file in the cloud even if it's on the device as a full size raw.

 

If you download an album in the Mobile version that only includes the Smart Preview. 

When you are connected to the internet and you open an image it will download the full-size file onto the tablet. 

 

My problem is that I cant open every image to get the original downloaded. 

The possibility to download the full-size file is there but is there a way to select an entire album and not each individual file. 

 

Stay healthy, Sam

 

Jim Wilde
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Jim WildeCommunity Expert
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May 15, 2021

Hi Jim,

 

fist of all thanks for your help. 🙂

 

The problem I think with what you are describing is that you probably opened the same file again. 

 

The original is in the cloud and you download a smart preview. 

If you are online and open the file it goes through the process you described (miniature-smart preview-original).

And this file is now stored on the device. 

Even if you go offline it will be available with a tiny loading time. 

But that would presuppose that I need to open every image after each other to get them onto my device. 

 

Maybe you could try to do the same procedure with a file you haven't opened until then.  

 

What I figured out is that if I Import the images directly onto the tablet the original is available. 

So that solves the problem with newly taken images. 

But I can't get old images that are originally in LRclassic as a full size file on my tablet. 

I tried reimporting them on the tablet but that led to a copy of every image in my LRclassic so that I have a copy of each newly imported file. 

 

Stay healthy, Sam

 


No Sam, trust me I do know what I'm doing. But just to be certain for you I repeated the process with another album, after first verifying that only smart previews were stored locally on the iPad. After that, I switched the "Only Download Smart Previews" switch OFF, then selected "Store Locally" for the album (6 images, 280MB, so certainly NOT smart previews). Once the download was completed, I then turned Airplane Mode ON so no network connection was available for Lightroom, then opened LrMobile and tried to edit several of the images in that album. Without exception, all of them went through the process I described, i.e. the Store Locally download had indeed downloaded and stored the originals as expected. I do think, however, that the information messages around this process could be improved, so I will mention that to Adobe.

 

The point I'm trying to make is that the process of storing an album locally, when that Smart Preview setting is disabled, should indeed result in the originals (if they exist in the cloud) being stored on your iPad. Yes, there's a delay loading that original when you select one of the images, but it's NOT a delay caused by waiting for the file to download from the cloud, instead it's a delay caused by the original file having to be fully rendered....BUT the image IS available for you to work on once the initial Smart Preview load is completed, you do not have to wait until the original is fully loaded.

 

One comment: you mention the problem with "old images originally in LrClassic". You need to understand that LrClassic does NOT upload a copy of the originals when you sync them from Classic to the cloud, it only uploads Smart Previews. It's therefore impossible to get the originals of those onto your iPad unless you re-import them into one of the Lightroom apps

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