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I have lightroom installed on computers and a phone. I don't want it to auto upload photos to the cloud. How do I stop photos from uploading?
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Hello Owen,
I see you are new here .. welcome!!
Lightroom is available in two different versions for desktop/laptop use, 'Lightroom' is the verdion that stores your images in the cloud so there are available anywhere at anytime, Lightroom Classic stores your files locally with the option of syncing to the cloud. Additionally there are cloud ecosystem versions for phone, iPad and web.
Storing in the cloud is your own choice and will determine which app you chose....
Rule #5 from Lightroom v1.0 "Enjoy"
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A nice workflow I have is to use Lightroom Classic to store my whole library, then create a collection that syncs with Lightroom, I only add the files I want in the cloud to this collection.
Steps:
The option 'Set as target collection' is useful because you can just press the 'B' key to add a photo quickly to that collection or click the grey circle top right on a thumbnail.
If you don't see the option 'Sync with Lightroom' when you create a collection just click the cloud icon top right of the module picker to enable sync.
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I just found this thread doing an internet search for "lightroom forcing me to use the cloud." It's revealing to see the back and forth comments in this thread. It says omething about peoples' ideologies. Some people seem to like monopolies and others want choice. Competition makes everything better in my opinion. Lose the competition and choices eventually disapear. Generally speaking about ideology, some people are ok with monopolies, or even prefer them, and others are not ok with it and like and want competition. This is in peoples' DNA I think. We are how we are. Examples of this are scattered throughout these forums. It is true that if you don't like it, then you don't have to buy it. But this is the only choice in the sense that no other software comes close to what pros need, so that they can run a business and make a living. I wish Adobe would understand this ideological difference in people, and create their products to accommodate everyone. This would go a long way in making for a better user experience. But the way of the world seems to be less or no choice in many other aspects of business and life. Such is life.