Obviously when Brian made his video there was a Tecnology Preview option in Lightroom, but currently there are none available (so the option in Preferences is removed) You're not missing out on anything. ... View more

There are no Technology Previews currently in the Lightroom desktop app, which is why there's no ralated tab in the Preferences.  ... View more

Not sure what you mean by "skeletons", but if you have some of your 20GB allowance already used up, the logical assumption is that you have some originals stored there (such as photos imported from LrMobile on a mobile device, or imported directly into the Lightroom Desktop or Web apps). Any of those images will already be in the LrC catalog (assuming sync was fully up to date between LrC and the cloud), but if you want to identify and remove those originals from the cloud (and replace with Smart Previews) the easiest was would be to use the Lightroom Desktop app:   1. Open LrD, click on All Photos to populate the grid with all the cloud images. 2. Create a (temporary) new Album, give it a unique name. 3. Click on the Filter icon (at the end of the top centre search bar), and select Sync Status from the filter bar. 4. That will show various entities, such as Synced from Lightroom Classic, but the one you are interested in will be "Synced and Backed Up", which is all the images stored in original form.  5. Click on that "Synced and Backed Up" entry and that will populate the grid only with those images. 6. Cmd+A to select them all, then add them to the new temporary album. 7. Wait until the equivalent collection appears in LrC. 8. When the collection has appeared, unsync it by clicking on the sync icon on front of the collection name. That will have no affect on the synced images in that collection, they will remain synced. 9. Select that collection, then Cmd+A to select all the contained images. Then, keeping them all selected, click on the All Synced Photographs special collection, then right-click on any one of the selected images and "Remove from All SYnced Photographs". This will remove all those images from the ASP and will also cause them all to be deleted from the cloud. 10. Monitor the LrD app until all those originals have been deleted from the cloud. When that's done, and assuming that you want them all back in the cloud as Smart Previews, go back to LrC and re-enable sync for that collection, which will upload them all as smart previews. Any that you don't want to resysnc, remove them from the collection before enabling it to sync. ... View more

No, this is nothing to do with the age of the iPad (though John is correct that some features may not be available on earlier models). However, in this case the "Early Access" Quick Actions function is currently not available on the iPad version of LrMobile. ... View more

Right-click on the stack and select Ungroup Stack. KBSC Shift+Cmd+G can be used, and Cmd+G can regroup them back into a stack. ... View more

On the Integrations panel, you have the "Work" gallery specified as the default import destination, but on the Pages panel you have "Work" disabled. Either enable "Work" or choose a different import collection. ... View more

Yes, you can then delete the NEF originals from the cloud....either by doing it from within any of the Lightroom apps or by removing it from the All Synced Photographs collection in LrC (though best to do it from LrC as then you will have ensured that the sync download into LrC has indeed happened). Many users have adopted that workflow, though many will then resync the image from LrC back to the cloud, but which uploads a smart preview instead of the original but which does not count against the users cloud storage allowance. ... View more

No, albums are not supported in the Local tab of LrDesktop. If you don't want to use the cloud, you would need to organize by folders, which is obviously less flexible. ... View more

1) No. Collections (and albums) are virtual containers only. They do not contain physical files, only catalog references to the actual individual files. Much like playlists. The advantage of this approach is that we can "add" the same image to multiple collections/albums without duplicating the image, but because they are virtual containers they only exist within the catalog. So when you sync an image to the cloud, only one smart preview is uploaded no matter how many synced collections you may have added it to.   2) Because the collections are virtual, and the images they contain may be in other collections, it is a fact that deleting or unsyncing a synced collection (or album) does NOT delete or unsync the images that the collection/album contains. If you want to delete a synced image from the cloud you must either remove it from the "All Synced Photographs" special collection (which will automatically remove the image from any synced collection that it was in - because a synced collection cannot contain unsynced images), and will also automatically delete it from the cloud,  or you must delete it from any cloud app (which will also remove it from the ASP in LrC as well as any synced collections/albums that it may have been in). One exception to that rule....if you remove an image from a synced collection you will get an option to also automatically remove it from the ASP but ONLY if the image is not in any other synced collection. ... View more