Wondering if it's the version of MacOS (Sequoia) that you are using. Strictly speaking, the current Lightroom desktop app version 7.5 is only certified up to Sonoma. Perhaps other Sequioa/Lightroom desktop users could comment on this. ... View more

The only "two login" limit applies to the desktop apps, such as LrC and Lightroom. You can login to LrMobile on any number of mobile devices and use them concurrently. I currently have it installed on 2 x iPads, one iPhone and until recently also an Android phone. ... View more

I can't help with the issue that you seem to have on the Creative Cloud app on your iPad/iPhone, but I have to ask why you would be using that in preference to using the Lightroom mobile app that you are already using on the iPad Pro 12.9? ... View more

The search box is designed to search the existing images in your catalog, so it's no surprise that it won't find any images that haven't yet been added to the catalog.    To import new images from your desktop, you use the "Add Photos" button which is near the top of the left-hand panel. That opens a file browser which will allow you to select the images or folders from your desktop.   If you don't see the Add Photos button, confirm that you are using the "Cloud" tab, not the "Local" tab (top left-hand corner of the Lightroom window).    If you still can't see the "Add Photos" button, please post a screenshot of the Lightroom window so that we can figure out what might be happening. ... View more

I'm not sure what you mean when you say that you cannot load any pictures or catalog system on the new system. You should simply be able to log into your Adobe account using the CC Desktop app on the new system, start Lightroom Desktop and your local catalog will automatically be recreated using your master cloud-based catalog. Assuming your cloud syncing was fully up-to-date on the old system, you should have no trouble setting up the app on the new system.   ... View more

It's also possible to share directly from a synced collection in Lightroom Classic, without have to use any of the cloud-centric Lightroom apps. Right-click on the synced collection and use the "Lightroom Links>Make Collection Public" option. Obviously that requires that the collection has been synced to the cloud from LrC.     ... View more

There are various ways to do this, but if you have access to LrC and you have sufficient storage space on your local system to (temporarily) store a 2 x copies of all the images in your Adobe cloud, then you could do the following:   1. Make sure you are logged into your student account on your desktop computer, then start LrC and create a new empty catalog (if you've not used LrC before on that system a new catalog will automatically be created). 2. Set the location for synced images to a hard drive that has enough space via the LrC Preferences>Lightroom Sync tab. 3. Then enable sync in the LrC catalog (click on the cloud icon top right to see the Start Syncing button). 4. LrC will then gradually download a copy of all the images that are in your Student cloud account, which will preserve all edits, flags and ratings and collections (albums in cloud speak).....BUT it will NOT preserve keywords and location data, so if you have used these extensively you might prefer to use a different method. 5. Assuming you are happy with the download, log out of the Student account via the CC Desktop app, and log in to your new account. Then start the Lightroom Desktop app and use the catalog migration tool to migrate the LrC catalog. 5. The migration copies all the LrC catalog contents to a local drive (which is why you need 2 x the space), then will upload to the cloud, preserving all edits, flags, ratings and will create albums from the synced collections. 6. Once all is complete, you can delete the LrC catalog and the associated images. The second copy inside the Lightroom Desktop space should gradually reduce in size unless you have chosen to store a local copy of all originals ion the Lightroom Preferences. ... View more

Have you checked your cloud contents by using the browser-based LrWeb app (login into lightroom.adobe.com using your Adobe ID)? That should show show exactly what you have stored in the cloud. If, as you think, there are way more that those 906 photos, then that means trying to figure out why the Lightroom apps aren't seeing them (though that screenshot indicates that syncing IS happening, so it maybe just a matter of time). ... View more

You need to give us details of the actual problem that you are wanting us to solve. You've given us nothing yet, so please explain exactly what the issue is. ... View more

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

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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