Uploading and accessing my 1TB Storage on creative cloud

[emmas92641345]

Hi! I'm trying to upload my images - via Lightroom. I want to keep 1 copy on my hard drive and 1 copy in my cloud storage (which i have paid for in my package). But i can't work out how to do this? Can anyone help?! Thank you.

[Abambo]

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I suppose you use Lightroom CC? Lightroom CC moves your pictures automatically to the cloud when your importing them. I suppose, but I’m not sure 100% because I do not use Lr CC and never have tested it, that Lr keeps a local copy for performance reasons.

[Jim Wilde · Accepted solution]

It very much depends on how you are uploading, and where the images currently are on your system.

If uploading by syncing from LR Classic, the existing images on the hard drive will remain where they are, but note that Classic only uploads Smart Previews of your originals, so you wouldn't have the originals in the cloud.

If uploading by importing the originals into the LRCC desktop app, LRCC copies the originals into it's own local library space, from where they are then uploaded to the cloud. So the original files (if not on a memory card of course) remain where they were on your hard drive (but are not subsequently referenced or used by LRCC). However, you can also instruct LRCC to store its own local copy of the originals, see the Local Storage tab of the LRCC Preferences)....if you elect not to use that option, the local copy that LRCC makes during import will become eligible for deletion after the successful upload has been made.

[JP Hess]

Just for clarification, you must use Lightroom CC (the cloud-based Lightroom) to import your images in order to use that 1 TB of cloud storage. You cannot utilize it synchronizing images from Classic.

[Abambo]

JimHess​, could you manually store your pictures to the cloud or is the Tb exclusively reserved for Lr CC?

[Jim Wilde]

You can use your 1tb cloud space allocation in two ways:

1. Uploading images from any of the LRCC apps (desktop, phone, tablet, web browser). These will be stored in the cloud and will also sync to all your other LRCC apps. If you also run LR Classic, and the catalog is sync-enabled, any images that you add to the cloud from LRCC will also download into the catalog and stored on your hard drive.

2. Uploading files (not just images, any files) via the CC App (Assets>Files tab). That operates Dropbox-style, i.e. the files are stored locally and in the cloud and also synced to any other device running the CC App, and links to those files can be shared with others.

Both of these uses of the cloud will count against the one cloud space allowance.