On a sepereate note but that occurred at about the same time, in the Editing tab my program suddenly only lets me have one subsection open at a time meaning I can't have Light, Color, Effects, etc. all open at once to quickly edit photos. When I open one it automatically closes another. I'm wondering why this is.  By @Adam38232234imp5   Click on the tri-dot icon below the edit tools in the right-hand edit tool-bar and click on "Single-Panel Mode"  to turn it off and revert to your normal behaviour (multiple panels can be open at the same time). ... View more

What Windows version? ... View more

I don't believe you can do this yet. When you include "Show Metadata" in the album display settings the viewer can see everything apart from keywords. Frustrating. ... View more

How do you determine that the GPS data didn't transfer on import into LrM from the SD card? LrM on iPad doesn't show the GPS data, even when it is embedded within the image file, so unless you are looking at the image in a downstream app I don't know how you can be sure. ... View more

Only the "owner" of a shared album can remove images from that album. Even if you have been granted edit capability, that still only allows you to edit any of the album images, and does not grant you the ability to remove or delete any of the contents of that shared album.    If you could explain how you intended to work collaboratively on the complete set of images (i.e. how is it determined which images each of you would be working on), it might be possible to suggest an alternative way of working. ... View more

Yes, you are correct that there is currently no way to show those colour labels in any of the Lightroom-only apps.  ... View more

I assume you have the mobile premium subscription plan? If you had the full Lightroom with 1TB cloud space Plan you can export using the "Original + Settings" option from the Lightroom Desktop app, exporting to your external hard drive.   But if you haven't got that full plan, you could try the free Adobe Lightroom Downloader which will download all the cloud files to your hard drive. Raw files are downloaded as original plus settings. Normally I wouldn't recommend the Downloader as the last few times I tested it there were problems with downloading the metadata associated with the files. That may not be an issue for you, so it would be worth a try to see if it fits your needs....nothing to lose, the downloader doesn't delete the images from the cloud so you could test and verify before manually clearing out images from the cloud. ... View more

Were you using the free version of Lightroom, or did you have an up-to-date subscription?   If you were using the free version then unless you have a backup of the phone I'm afraid you've lost all image content that you had inside Lightroom. The free version does not sync, so the photos remain on the phone, and without any form of phone backup you've lost them all.   But if you were using the subscription version, and syncing was up-to-date, then all the photos will have been stored in the Adobe cloud as well as on the phone. So you can access the cloud content by logging into your Adobe account either from a new phone or via the Lightroom Web app (login to your Adobe account at lightroom.adobe.com in any browser window).   ... View more

  This sounds consistent with you having switched your synced catalogue from the catalogue on the iMac to the catalogue on  the laptop. As Adobe's sync now thinks a different catalogue file is in control, Adobe's sync is removing from the cloud anything synced from iMac-catalogue and uploading photos you're syncing from laptop-catalogue.   In other words, you sync a single catalogue file, and syncing a different catalogue file will clear anything from the first. There is a warning first. By @john beardsworth   It's not supposed to work that way, John. If a user switches sync from one LrC catalog to another nothing is supposed to be deleted from the cloud, and the new sync catalog gets all the existing cloud contents downloaded into it. ... View more

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You could try the solution in this thread: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-discussions/lightroom-you-do-not-have-permission-to-save-files/m-p/14640923?clickref=1011lyCuvbVQ&mv=affiliate&mv2=pz&as_camptype=&as_channel=affiliate&as_source=partnerize&as_campaign=lightroomqueen ... View more

Not sure what other answer there could be. The OP wanted to know how they could use LrC on their laptop without having to take an external drive, and the only way is to have catalog and previews (library and smart) on the laptop's hard drive. Speaking personally, last year I switched from a desktop Mac Mini to a new MacBookPro laptop, and knowing that I would be away for 3 months I went for a 4TB internal drive which is big enough to store my catalog and image library with ease. Sure, I also took external drives with me for backup, but they only need to be connected as and when. ... View more

Yes you can change thge location to an external drive, and Lightroom should thenn move the images from the current location to the new location. If you subsequently open Lightroom when the external drive is not connected you will receive a warning message like this:     It's not a problem, but just something to be aware of. You can even use the "Don't Show Again" to stop the message being issued every time you start Lightroom with that drive disconnected. ... View more

Which version of Lightroom are you referring to? Lightroom (Lr icon) or Lightroom Classic (LrC icon)? You've posted in the Lightroom ecosystem forum, which implies you are using the cloud-centric Lightroom (Lr), is that correct?  ... View more

The "band-aid" was the old heal/clone tool. With the latest update to Lightroom the new "Generative AI" tool was introduced, and the original heal/clone function has been merged with "Generative AI" into a new tool called simply "Remove". The icon for that new tool is at the right-hand side of the main tool-bar.     And I think I've answered your last question as well. ... View more

The image in question was cropped quite significantly, but even with the cropping, the detail in the cropped image on my laptop screen was so much higher than the smart preview on my phone. By @Andy Baines   That's because the Lightroom desktop app on your laptop will always download the original for editing, even if you have also downloaded Smart Previews. But LrM on your phone doesn't do that if you have "Only download smart previews" enabled.....so you are comparing a heavily cropped original with a heavily cropped smart preview, and you've now seen the potential consequences of that.   All I'm saying is that you have to be alive to the implications of using smart previews only on your phone....I said "generally these are OK", but that also means that there will be times when it's not OK, as you have discovered. For folks that have their originals in the cloud, we have an easy workaround (i.e. use the "get this original" command), but for those that sync their images from LrC to the cloud they don't have any such remedy, as all that is in the cloud will be smart previews, and for those heavily cropped images there's not really a solution. ... View more

Which version are you using: Lightroom ("Lr" icon) or Lightroom Classic ("LrC" icon)?   Can you post a screenshot of the error message?  ... View more

You don't need to "create" a slideshow, you can now simply start a slideshow in the Lightroom Desktop app which will then operate on the current selected source (i.e. album, All Photos, search or filter). To initiate the slideshow simply use the View menu>Start Slideshow. Controls are very basic. ... View more

Not sure what extra detail you're looking for. But basically, when you sync images TO the Cloud FROM LrC then only smart previews of those images are uploaded to the cloud. SPs are 2560 px on the long edge, so not going to be as good as the full-res originals (and can be even more problematic if the image has been heavily cropped, as the crop is then applied to the smart preview, thus reducing the pixel count even more).    To get a copy of the full resolution originals to the cloud requires that they be imported into any one of the Lightrooim apps (Desktop, Mobile or Web). With full resolution images in the cloud, the end-user will then be able to get full-resolution jpegs of the originals when using the album or image download option.    In the situation where SPs uploaded from LrC are already in the cloud, subsequently importing the full-resolution copy of the same files into a Lightroom app will cause the SPs in the cloud to be replaced by those originals, thus making them available in the shared albums when using the album/image download option.   If that latter action isn't working for you, we need some details about what you did and what exactly happens when you next try the download. ... View more

@MatthewDoudt    Have a look at the Collaborative Proofing option in the browser-based Lightroom Web app.....it's a Technology Preview that has to be enabled, but once you've done that it allows you choose an album, then select the Proofing tab at bottom left, then click on the sharing icon, which then allows you to copy the URL for sharing with your clients and at the same time limit their selections to xx photos. At the client end the display allows them to select images up to the maximum that you've set (and yes, there's a running count for the user). When you then open the album back in your LrWeb app you can filter by client and then have an album of just that specific user's selects created automatically.    You might find it useful. ... View more

Generally speaking, I find that using smart previews locally on my mobile devices is OK, with no obvious signs of them being pixellated or low resoltion. One obvious area of concern would be if the original image has been heavily cropped, because that could easily produce the effect that you are seeing. The Smart Preview is generated from the full size original image, and is 2560 pixels on the long edge, but if the original image has been cropped to say 50% then that crop is also applied to the Smart Preview when it is shown to you on the mobile device, so the image would be only 1280 pixels on the long edge (or less if the crop is more than 50%), which could then cause pixellation.    For the images that appear pixellated, check the cropped dimensions compared with the original image dimensions.   Regarding downloading originals in such situations, Lightroom should automatically remove them in favour of a smart preview over time, but at any time you can use the "Clear Cache" command which should remove such downloaded originals (provided the "Only Download Smart Previews" setting is still enabled). ... View more

Thanks.    In which case follow the actions specified by @selondon. ... View more

Can we check which version of Lightroom you are using. Go to Help>System Info and tell us the version Name and Number (it will be the first line below your system details).   @selondon is correct if you are using the cloud-centric version, called simply Lightroom, but we need to confirm you are not using the Lightroom Classic version (there would be different guidance if you are using LrC). ... View more

I wouldn't call it a "regression", it's simply a UI change made to incorporate the new feature of being able to view, edit and delete images in the Apple camera roll directly from within the Lightroom app.  ... View more

It would be really helpful if you could capture a screenshot next time you encounter that "file missing from iMac" message (are you sure it didn't say "Waiting for Settings from iMac"?).   Is this issue happening with every image that you edited in LrMobile, or just that one image? Easy enough to test with one edit, no need to spend any great amount of time editing an image in great detail just for testing purposes.   Regarding the image that you did spend a lot of time on, and which was subseqently reset somehow, have you checked the Versions panel to see if there's an auto-version available which does contain those original edits? If so, promoting that "version" in LrM to be the current edit state should then sync that version back to LrC. ... View more

You can sync collections of your choosing from LrC to the cloud, but when you start syncing a new LrC catalog with the cloud you can't stop whatever is already in the cloud from downloading into that new catalog. There is no selective syncing from the cloud to LrC, a copy of every image that gets added to the cloud from any of the Lightroom apps will automatically download into the current LrC synced catalog.   Regarding the "Mobile Downloads.lrdata" package, that is the default location that LrC will use to store the images downloaded from the cloud. You can change the location of that downloads folder via the LrC Preferences>Lightroom Sync tab, though it would have been better to do that before you started syncing the LrC catalog. If you change location now, LrC should offer to move all the images in Mobile Downloads to the newly designated folder. ... View more

That message is the expected result of changing the specified location of locally stored originals, on the Lightroom Preferences>Cache tab. When that location is changed by the user, on next restart Lightroom needs to move any locally stored originals from the old to the new location. Unless you made that change inadvertently, you should allow Lightroom to move those files. This has no effect on your images stored in the cloud. ... View more

On your iPhone, select one of the affected images in Lightroom mobile then tap on the cloud icon upper right. What is file type is listed under "LOCAL" and what is listed under "CLOUD BACKUP"? ... View more