Lightroom Desktop sync issues, 20 photos stuck - "NeedsProxyDownloaded"

[Tommy York]

I'm trying to install Lightroom Desktop and sync all the photos locally (to eventually merge to LrC) and am stuck on 20 files sync'ing.

The sync diagnostic report shows:

Syncing and Error Assets
document id	sync status	subtype	filename	deleted
06635de842b95baedc71d90d1d6abeb6	NeedsProxyDownloaded	image	DSC02044.dng	false
0b377f19cd1500f1f5890d9d9c756999	NeedsProxyDownloaded	image	L1005641.DNG	false
1be8c0a211b4f66db1a64466cc848934	NeedsProxyDownloaded	image	L1000238.DNG	false
210fe10e191502348b325d2b15dc9cf0	NeedsProxyDownloaded	image	DSC02048.dng	false
235a3ff4b50de069ca52ccad65557e7a	NeedsProxyDownloaded	image	L1007375.DNG	false
2f559ac0a8f749facfc5caebea32222b	NeedsProxyDownloaded	image	L1003475.DNG	false
3e0e837c2f138c42dfedffb3ea088c4f	NeedsProxyDownloaded	image	L1003333.DNG	false
65dd6fd1963eadafcb6ca5f9a3cd6067	NeedsProxyDownloaded	image	L1004080.DNG	false
7f20d2aad8e065558512e54fe7da329d	NeedsProxyDownloaded	image	DSC02141.dng	false
853dec591f0cd169664ce7c09fd3b8a6	NeedsProxyDownloaded	image	L1004036.DNG	false

document id	sync status
8899323cfb225ebd5a26c2fe993c1143	NeedsProxyDownloaded
9d2e3415ef7b87754ff9f8cb30d09c23	NeedsProxyDownloaded
a652635604ef9306bc0c276e1d312012	NeedsProxyDownloaded
b03d74ec055e7ebf2a6c50de11752757	NeedsProxyDownloaded
b9292339972b1fa128f060fea8220a6f	NeedsProxyDownloaded
c87993b7ebb0f3262aa4d69c8d47e21e	NeedsProxyDownloaded
d6d189fe4ece5815d3a89da7a872ccdb	NeedsProxyDownloaded
d94e6659dcf0af9d961889392205a051	NeedsProxyDownloaded
dec624cacd50ed1a75c8cfc6767f726b	NeedsProxyDownloaded
e908fd14eccdfd03f31a48c10d2b530c	NeedsProxyDownloaded

I've got Lightroom Downloader running concurrently as well for redundancy, but I think the 20 photos stopped sync'ing before I started the Lightroom Downloader download process an hour ago, I've been sync'ing overnight.

I can see them if I filter for then, but don't want to have to delete them from the library, I'm a little worried they won't come back + don't want to resort into their collections. As a sidenote, my LrC catalog upgrade seems to have lost a bunch of photos, I've imported the old catalog, they're back but in trying to remove some duplicates outside the adobe ecosystem I removed some images that now live in the cloud only (I wish LrC had better / more granular duplicate recognition - e.g. this is the raw version of a jpg you have imported, so still import and potentially replace) .

Can't upload zip or html but if necessary I can post the entire diagnostic html here.

[Rob_Cullen]

I have no answer to all your sync error messages, but it might have been simpler to-

1) Turn on [Sync] in Lightroom-Classic.

2) Nothing more needed!  All Cloud photos will automatically download and appear in the Lr-Classic catalog.

[Tommy York]

No, because of my (poorly planned) migration, a bunch of photos were renamed externally, so I removed photos with missing files. There were lots of weird duplicates too, because I'd imported renamed files that LrC didn't identify as duplicates (and two lightroom photos can't share the same underlying file). So I went through and deleted the photos with missing files. This was a bad decision. I was able to salvage a lot, my Lightroom Downloader download just finished and I might do an import from there, rather than Lr Desktop export -> LrC import.

[Tommy York]

My next plan is to fix the import errors, sync all those, actually do the Lr Desktop -> LrC export migration to hopefully get some of the collections that were zero'd out (though it actually looks like they're automatically sync'ing in LrC, at least what's been downloaded so far, so maybe unnecessary), then double check by importing from the downloaded folder to get any stragglers.