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How to Unsync photos in Lightroom CC & Mobile?

Explorer ,
Jul 29, 2018 Jul 29, 2018

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Hello!

With the recent update to Lightroom Mobile allowing Presets to be created and synced from Lightroom CC, I've wanted to give it a try. This seems that it'll be especially convenient when editing on the go.

However, my Lightroom CC and Mobile have stopped syncing because I'm apparently out of cloud storage. Which in turn, hasn't synced my presets in LR to mobile. I searched various ways to unsync photos from the cloud without deleting them from Lightroom CC itself, and haven't found anything. I looked on the cloud itself, assets.adobe.com, and didn't see any files on there.

Are there not any options to stop syncing to the cloud? It seems a bit ridiculous to not have control over what is synced and what isn't. I should be able to control what gets synced to all devices and what photos I don't.

Any help regarding to stop syncing photos or unsyncing photos without deleting them from LR is extremely helpful!

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Community Expert , Aug 07, 2018 Aug 07, 2018

There are only two ways to unsync images without losing them. One is to use Lightroom Classic on your desktop. Let all the synced images download and unsync specific images or collections and they will get deleted from the cloud but not from Classic. Contrary to Lightroom CC, Classic can selectively sync. The other is to export your images from Lightroom CC to originals to your hard disk and then to delete them from Lightroom CC altogether.

Lightroom CC can only sync everything to the cloud. They

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New Here ,
Aug 04, 2018 Aug 04, 2018

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I don’t have the answer but I completely agree!! I’m in the same boat. I don’t have the cloud storage space to sync photos but want to sync my presets. I‘d love to hear an answer to this.

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Explorer ,
Aug 04, 2018 Aug 04, 2018

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Yeah, it's completely annoying. I've yet to figure out a resolution to this. Instead, I had to delete some photos in order for it to sync my presets again.

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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 07, 2018 Aug 07, 2018

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Moving to Lightroom CC forum

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Community Expert ,
Aug 07, 2018 Aug 07, 2018

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There are only two ways to unsync images without losing them. One is to use Lightroom Classic on your desktop. Let all the synced images download and unsync specific images or collections and they will get deleted from the cloud but not from Classic. Contrary to Lightroom CC, Classic can selectively sync. The other is to export your images from Lightroom CC to originals to your hard disk and then to delete them from Lightroom CC altogether.

Lightroom CC can only sync everything to the cloud. They might change this at some point allowing for some local images but the whole point of CC is that the entire library and all your images are in the cloud. Lightroom Classic takes the opposite approach in that your images are local and you only sync what you want.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 23, 2022 Apr 23, 2022

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Is this still the only way to unsync? 

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Community Expert ,
Apr 23, 2022 Apr 23, 2022

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Yes. Two ways as stated by @Jao vdL 

 

 

Regards. My System: Lightroom-Classic 14.0, Photoshop 26.0, ACR 17.0, Lightroom 8.0, Lr-iOS 9.0.1, Bridge 15.0.0, Windows-11.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 14, 2023 Apr 14, 2023

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This is still confusing. I am using LR CC subscription and use Lightroom classic on my desktop, and the lighroom mobile app on my phone. I had a ton of sync'd data from some previous installation, files taken from the desktop (maybe lightroomCC when it was called such). If I unsync files in the "all sync'd photos" folder in classic, they drop into "deleted" in the mobile app and warn me they'll be gone in 60 days. However it's my understanding that since they came from my physical drive, they should remain there as they've only been pulled from the sync collection. Sure they'll go off the phone, but the catalog/file copy should remain?

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Community Expert ,
Apr 14, 2023 Apr 14, 2023

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"...as they've only been pulled from the sync collection. Sure they'll go off the phone, but the catalog/file copy should remain?..."

Yes, but the LrC Classic image file is not a "copy". LrC always references original image files on a hard-drive.

If the images were synced UP to the Cloud from synced Collections, then the originals are always on the hard-drive, even if you delete (what are proxy smart Previews) from the Cloud.

 

Images taken on your Mobile devices, must be allowed to sync DOWN to the LrC catalog (as the full-size original files), before you Delete them from the Cloud.

SYNC SETUP IN CLASSIC

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PS. Adobe does not use the "Lightroom CC" name any more, and it causes untold confusion!. You must have the PHOTOGRAPHY PLAN subscription which includes Lightroom-Classic and the 'Cloud' versions of Lightroom (Lr-mobile, Lr-Desktop, Lr-Web).

"CC" should only be used to refer to the Creative Cloud Desktop App that manages your subscription.

 

Regards. My System: Lightroom-Classic 14.0, Photoshop 26.0, ACR 17.0, Lightroom 8.0, Lr-iOS 9.0.1, Bridge 15.0.0, Windows-11.

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Explorer ,
Jun 03, 2023 Jun 03, 2023

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*walks away from lightroom*

What a waste of time and energy this whole mess is!!  Adobe!!  What the heck are you thinking!?

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Adobe Employee ,
Jun 04, 2023 Jun 04, 2023

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You’ve posted to a very old thread. It is highly unlikely that the issue described in this thread, though not impossible, is the same issue which you are currently experiencing. Rather than resurrect an old thread that is seemingly similar, you are better posting to a new thread with fresh, complete information including system information, a complete description of the problem and step-by-step instructions for reproduction. 

 

In the unlikely event the issue is the same, we will merge you back into the appropriate location. 

 

Thank you!

 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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