Been using Lightroom (what used to be called CC) for several years now.
Did not realize that it is cloud based only and actually only uses your local drive separately (and without the same functionality) and not both in tandem. Worked fine for a long time until I ran into an issue where the program forced me to buy more storage to sync my work to the cloud. Begrudgingly, I did so as I did not want to lose years worth of edits. Over three days, Lightroom synced my library of nearly 48,000 photos. Now, that it is done, 37,000+ of those have an exclamation mark error and Cloud Storage indicates these are 'invalid items'.
What do I do? Previous posters instruct me to delete these nearly 40,000 images and then re-add them, but won't I lose my edits in this process? I feel like I have just lost YEARS OF WORK all for the privledge of paying Adobe MORE OF MY MONEY. I am beyond upset and late on a project. I never should have left Lightroom Classic. Basically, Adobe put a paywall on MY PROPERTY and unless someone has a solution it seems like I will lose years of edits.
Has anyone solved this issue? And advice?
Or is there a way to force Lightroom to read image data directly from the drive?
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