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AlessioPhotography
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May 7, 2018
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Original pictures to Cloud but work with Classic, possible?

  • May 7, 2018
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Hello to all,

I have been using Lightroom (now Lr Classic CC) for several years, which as you know has recently launched the Cloud version "Lightroom CC". I have a licensed subscription for both software + 1tb of cloud space. I would like to understand if I can store the originals file to the cloud while continuing to use the "old" software that today more complete and has got more features that I need.

I thought to act this way, I do NOT migrate the catalog from Classic to the new CC but I continue to use the old Classic normally with synchronization enabled for Lightroom CC, I will import the new photos to Lr CC that at this point will send them in Cloud and then will always download them from the network in the Classic CC, so the original file will also be in local disk.

It 'a boring procedure. I also believe that in the new Lightroom CC it has to "deactivate" the local writing of the archive, otherwise it would store twice space on disk.

It's ok? If it's ok for new import... how I can send to cloud my old archive??

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    johnv56043362
    Participant
    March 30, 2019

    Hi all,

    This is what I believe and I am hoping someone can tell me I am wrong.

    I have limited space on my laptop so when I use LR cc (not classic) I can get it to upload full size image files to the cloud without keeping them on my hard drive.

    IF, however, I want to use LR classic cc on my laptop as well, as soon as I sync it to the cloud it starts to download ALL the full size image files down to the laptop. 

    I don’t want this! I want to be able to choose which of the images in the cloud I want to work on with LR classic cc and only download those full size images to the local hard drive, but that does not seem possible,

    am I right?

    regards

    John

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    Jao vdLCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 30, 2019

    You are right

    On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 5:57 AM johnv56043362 <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

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      johnv56043362
      Participant
      March 30, 2019

      Thank you Jao.

      i thought I was missing something but, though it doesn’t work the way I would wish, it is good to know that I wasn’t just being ignorant.

      Regard

      John

      JP Hess
      JP Hess
      Inspiring
      May 7, 2018

      First of all, I'd like to point out that the "old" Lightroom Classic CC isn't old at all. It is still being updated, new features added, and is alive and well. Lightroom CC (the cloud-based Lightroom) is a completely different approach to Lightroom. From the way you seem to want to use the two together, you would always want to import your images using Lightroom CC and have it configured to store a copy locally on your hard drive. That way you would have the original in the cloud as well as an original locally. As far as your existing images, you can create collections in Lightroom Classic CC and share those collections but they will be smart previews. The nice thing about those is that they will be large enough that you can work with them and share them, but they won't count against your 1 TB of storage space. Don't know if this answers any of your questions. But it's a start.

      On the other hand, if you think you want your existing library of images stored in the cloud as full-sized images, then it will be necessary for you to migrate your catalog. That is something I haven't done and don't intend to do. I haven't been that converted to Lightroom CC yet.

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      AlessioPhotographyAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      May 7, 2018

      Tahnk you for reply, ok so I need to migrate my catalog to Lr CC to have full size image in cloud and then I can import new pictures in Lr CC (without local storage option) and with "syncro" I will have the same pictures on Lr Classic... I hope

      JP Hess
      JP Hess
      Inspiring
      May 7, 2018

      If you migrate your catalog then you will have full sized images of what you have on your hard drive stored in the cloud. You will also have those images on your hard drive. Then if you choose to import images into Lightroom CC without the local storage option on your hard drive, you will not have copies on your local hard drive (as I understand it). But you have to understand that I have not migrated to catalog and don't plan to do so.

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