It rather depends on what you're trying to achieve. If the goal was to use your iPad to enter keywords that would then sync with Classic, then clearly that would indeed be pointless as keywords do not sync between Classic and the cloud ecosystem (although any keywords entered on one of the LRCC apps would help the search system on the rest of the cloud apps). Many users, however, are not trying to integrate the cloud into their Classic workflow, and instead have opted to use only the cloud-based apps. For those users, entering keywords on their iPad (or LRCC on a desktop) makes a lot more sense. ... View more

lindsayc2017  wrote Lightroom CC might as well be completely unusable without the ability to "save as" or "export as" like Lightroom Classic. There IS an "export" capability (called "Save To") in LR CC, but as yet you cannot rename on export. ... View more

Generally speaking, syncing (uploading) should work fine, though of course the speed is totally dependent upon your WAN upload speed. However, for a few weeks I kept running into a problem of the upload "stalling" after a few (10-20) raw files had been uploaded. Close and restart and it would do a few more before stalling again. It quickly became apparent that something was happening with my network router, i.e. it would disconnect from the WAN, then restart the connection. Obviously there was a problem of some description with the LRCC's use of the router, because the disconnect/restart only happened when uploading from LRCC. I swapped out the router and the problem went away. But when having these "events" LRCC did not recover when the WAN connection was restarted (possible bug?), hence the need to restart LRCC to get it to sync again. This may be totally unrelated to your problem, but thought it worth mentioning. When your syncing stalls, does it resume if you simply restart LRCC? ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Per+Berntsen  wrote The OP is probably referring to the Restart Lightroom button in the bottom left corner of the preferences dialog. I think it was introduced in LR Classic, or maybe a little earlier. Correct. Every version since, and including, LR5 (on the Windows platform) has had a "Restart Lightroom" button at the bottom-left corner of all of the tabs in the Preferences dialog. Windows only, it's never been in the Mac version. I did ask about that once, but didn't get a satisfactory reply. ... View more

bryced87  wrote There isn't a way to disable LR Classic saving the full quality on my hard drive? That is correct, there isn't any way of doing that if you want Classic to sync with the cloud. ... View more

As I've already said, that's the way Classic is designed to work....if there's an original file in the cloud, and the Classic catalog is set to sync, that original will be downloaded by Classic into the appropriate place on your hard drive. You can't stop that happening if you have set Classic to sync, as there's not a "selective sync" capability. ... View more

I'd like to help, but without some additional details I'm struggling. Clearly something is happening during syncing which you aren't expecting, but I'm not clear about what that is. IF you have added (i.e. imported) an image into any of the LRCC apps, then you should expect to see the full original download into Classic if the Classic catalog is sync enabled. Your post seems to imply you were expecting a preview, not the original file, to have downloaded into Classic.....but that's not what happens with original files in the cloud, they will always download as full originals into Classic. Your last point I do not understand what you mean when you say you have your iphone folder in Classic turned off for sync. Folders in Classic cannot be synced, so do you mean a collection? ... View more

Confused by your comment about "turning off iphone sync in Classic"....it's not possible to sync to specific devices, you only ever sync to the Adobe Cloud (and that applies to all the LRCC apps as well). Having said that, here's how it all works: 1. There are several "cloud-centric" apps under the "Lightroom CC (LRCC)" banner, such as LRCC on the desktop, LRCC on phone/tablet, LRCC Web. These all operate in the same way...specifically every image that you add (import) to any of these apps will be uploaded as the full original to the cloud. From there, they will be available for download to the rest of the LRCC apps, and you have some control over whether you download the original or a smart preview (though thumbnails are always downloaded). Subsequent changes (edits, certain metadata) made using LRCC on any of the devices will sync via the cloud to the other devices. One point here is that you don't have to store the "LRCC on desktop" originals on the local system. 2. LR Classic is NOT an equal member of the cloud syncing. For a start, not all images added will automatically sync, the user has to decide what and how to sync them. When images are sync-enabled, only Smart Previews, not full originals, are uploaded. And while all edits made in Classic to synced images WILL sync to the LRCC apps, not all metadata does....notably keywords and location data do not sync between Classic and the cloud. One last point, if Sync is enabled in Classic, EVERY image that is added to the cloud from any of the LRCC apps will automatically be downloaded (full original) into Classic (and will be stored on you local system in the default location, though you can change that location using Classic Preferences>Lightroom Sync tab). Hopefully, that should clear up some of your confusion, but from that you might need to think about how you use (or even IF you use) LRCC for desktop and LR Classic on the same system. I do, but in LRCC I have elected NOT to store a local copy of the cloud originals, so I don't end up with the sort of duplication you're concerned about. On my main system, Classic is my main app, so ALL my image assets eventually end up in the Classic catalog and file structure, and are backed up accordingly as they always have been. The main virtue of LRCC'c could storage (for me) is not so much that my files are backed up, but rather that they are available to me wherever I am on whatever device I have with me at the time. Hope that helps. ... View more

Yes, I had intended to remove John's first sentence from the quote, as my response only refers to his second comment about existing sync images being deleted. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/john+beardsworth  wrote You can't sync more than one catalogue, and there's no workaround. If you sync a different one, the previous catalogue's photos are removed from sync. Not since the "Sync Catalog Recovery" feature was introduced in 6.8, John. Now if you sync a different catalog the previously synced photos remain in the cloud and are ADDED to the new catalog. ... View more

I don't think it's strange, but that's because I've been used to that type of behaviour ever since the first version of Lightroom, i.e. you cannot delete images from within collections (because they may be in other collections as well). Even if you delete a collection, the images in the collection are not deleted. So really, I don't see any difference here in LRCC. If you want to delete all the images that are in an album, you have to select the images first and then opt to delete them (though you CAN now do that from within an album). Using the desktop app version of LRCC, it's an easy process.....select the album, do Ctrl+A to select all the images (you need to be in one of the Grids to do this), right-click on one of the thumbnails and select "Delete xxxx Photos". ... View more

Sadly there isn't much that can be done about this. If the card hasn't actually been reused, there's a good chance that a file recovery utility could recover some of the images from the card. The images you see in Lightroom are only the previews that are created during the import, the quality of which very much depends on what you specified in the Import dialog. I think Adobe has a utility that could be used to create jpegs from the previews, but again the quality might not be high. ... View more

tschnurr  wrote What I want to achieve. Delete a picture or album on LR CC/mobile so that less GB space is used but keep it in LR Classic CC. And furthermore I assumed that when I create a album on LR CC mobile the album and pictures would be transferred as well to my local iMAC LR Classic CC folder and appear as a new folder or "Sammlung" but this is not the case. So how to transfer albums from ioS to OSX LR? If you delete a picture from within any of the LRCC apps, it will be deleted from the cloud and thus also deleted from all the other LRCC apps. But LR Classic is not regarded by Adobe as being a "full member" of the cloud eco-system, so if the deleted image had also been synced to LR Classic, it does NOT get deleted from Classic. Instead it is simply removed from the All Synced Photographs collection, but remains in the catalog and in the local folder. If you delete an ALBUM from within any of the LRCC apps, the album gets deleted from all other synced devices (but not the photos in it) but is only "un-synced" in Classic (i.e. the collection remains in Classic, but the sync indicator is removed from it). To transfer albums/pictures from the cloud down into Classic....simply ensure that Classic is sync-enabled (and signed in using the same Adobe ID as the LRCC apps) and it will happen automatically (but only one Classic catalog can be sync-enabled at one time). ... View more

1. Shouldn't have to reset first, unless the preset you apply already contains Auto Settings. 2. Possibly because the previews in Library and Develop are different. 3. When you create a new preset, the "New Develop Preset" dialog box includes a checkbox for "Auto Settings". ... View more

I doubt very much that this was "forgotten" by Adobe, because I think that LRCC really isn't targeted (yet) at power users or high volume pros. It's a brand new app being built from the ground up, and initially aimed at the mobile/hobbyist segment. It's expected that new features will be frequently added, and I imagine attention will be paid to the more popular feature requests at the Adobe feedback site, so it's a good idea to hop over there and add your vote to the batch editing request which already exists there: Lightroom CC: Ability to copy/sync settings/adjustments across a group of photos | Photoshop Family Customer Community In the meantime, you might be better off sticking with Lightroom Classic, which does have most of the tools that power users need. ... View more

You could try deleting/renaming the existing local LRCC catalog. You should find it in users/username/AppData/Local/Adobe/Lightroom CC......delete or rename the Lightroom CC folder, then try the migration again. Though you might still have trouble if the Classic catalog's files are on a NAS. ... View more

I've tested that workflow on both OSX (10.11.6) and Win10, and cannot reproduce the problem that you're reporting. On both platforms the "importing" keeps pace with the exporting, there is no lag, and when subsequently re-exporting using "Overwrite", duplicates are not created or added to the catalog. In short, everything seems to work as expected. It would perhaps be helpful if you could setup a video capture of the problem to see if there's any step in your particular workflow that is different to the way I tested. ... View more

Yes, a little. "Folders" are used in LRCC as well as "Albums", and they are equivalent to "Collections Sets" and "Collections" in LR Classic. And while LRCC does have the AI search capability, that does not extend to the Folders and Albums, only to the images. ... View more

What version of Lightroom are you using, and what Operating System? ... View more