Save Album to ext. storage - but have it still available // Keep Album in LR CC but not in Cloud

[saschag96537985]

Alright folks, I need to ask. I just don't find the right solution online.

WHAT DO I LOOK FOR?

1.) Outsource a specific album

As I do in Premiere Pro with whole projects, I want to transfer special albums to an external drive. Then I want to have the possibility to go that ext. drive, select that particular album incl. all the files and settings and do some further work within LR CC. So that I outsource particular 'high volume' albums to my ext. drive and still have the permanent possibility to enter them by plugging in my ext. drive. But I just dont see a way to do so. In Premiere Pro I just copy the whole project folder to the ext. drive and that's it - that's what I want to do as well within LR CC.

2.) Separate an album from the cloud

Seperate a specific album from the cloud. I mostly don't need the albums in the cloud so I thought there might be like a button or sth. which allows me to decide whether I want to connect the album with the cloud or not. Simple as that.

So what do u think? Any help?

All the best.

Sascha

[JP Hess · Accepted solution]

It's called Lightroom Classic CC, the desktop Lightroom. Lightroom CC (the cloud-based Lightroom) is not designed to provide any off-line editing.

[anita5FF8]

Hi,

do I understand this correctly,

If i want to edit my photos within my desktop  i need the version that has CLASSIC in the name?

If i want to save and album with all the edits i have on the cloud on a stick or external hard drive to take to the printers how do I do that?

[Rob_Cullen]

"If i want to edit my photos within my desktop i need the version that has CLASSIC in the name?"

Lightroom (Cloud version 6.5) installed on your desktop computer can edit you photos, but the original files are still stored in your cloud storage.

Lightroom-Classic v12.5 needs the Camera files on a local folder location.

COMPARE LIGHTROOM & LIGHTROOM-CLASSIC FEATURES

"If i want to save and album with all the edits i have on the cloud on a stick or external hard drive to take to the printers how do I do that?"

In Lightroom-v6.5 You do a [Share/Export] of the edited images.