How to stop saving photos to my PC from Lightroom? - Windows OS

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November 18, 2019
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When importing photos to Lightroom CC cloud they save on my PC. I don't want this.

I originally set the photos to save on an external drive. When the drive is not plugged in, LR saves all the photos to my PC. Side question: if I delete photos locally will they be deleted from the cloud next time Lightroom syncs?

I can't figure out how to turn off local saving. I want saving off altogether; I just want to use my PC for uploading photos to the cloud.

Thanks.

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matthewuscenesAuthor

Inspiring

The tip suggested by Sahil doesn't work. Is there no other way?

I dont have to save the photos when importing on my iPad. So surely the option exists for PCs too?

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dazinau

Participant

hi Matthew,

I'm having the same problem, did you ever get a fix?

thanks, Darren,.

matthewuscenesAuthor

Inspiring

There is no solution, it saves all photos to my PC. That reminds me- I need to delete 133GB now. Pretty terrible service from Adobe. Maybe I will go back to importing on a tablet.

Sahil.Chawla

Adobe Employee

Hi Matthew,

As you do not want to save the images locally on the computer, you need to go into Lightroom's Preferences > Local Storage and uncheck the option which says Store a copy of all originals at the specified location.

Hope this helps.
Regards,
Sahil

matthewuscenesAuthor

Inspiring

It is unchecked but still saves to my PC. Any other ideas?

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