@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

Possibly/probably, though we would need Adobe to confirm. But certainly I see the same behaviour as you in local mode, though that is what I would assume would happen. Are you sure it used to happen when using Local mode? ... View more

I can't speak for Adobe, but personally what you describe is expected behaviour. Technically, when you load images in the Local mode from a memory card you are not importing them, you are simply "saving" them, i.e. copying them from card to disk. Import actions, such as adding copyright or using non-default develop settings (i.e. Camera Settings) would not be applied in Local mode. However, I would expect them to be applied if you then choose to copy a local image to the cloud....and in fact that is what happens.  ... View more

  If I had deleted the designated downloads folder, shouldn't this be rebuilt in the following rebot of the app? I can still download as single images these original files from Lr-web or Lr-phone or Lr-desktop that I am not locating in LrC.   By @noucel   No, LrC won't do that. If images or folders are deleted outside LrC, then as far as it's concerned the images are missing until they are restored by the user....which is what you have been doing. There is no automated way of having the cloud re-download images which are missing in LrC but still exist in the cloud. That would make a great feature request!   I assume that if you right-click on one of the missing images and select "Go to Folder in Library" it will select the Mobile Downloads folder that I can't see in your screenshot of the Folders Panel because that would be on the Macintosh HD drive above the section that you've shown me. I didn't realise you would be using an external drive for your catalog etc. So if that's the case, you can see how many images are still missing.   If there are only a few, you could export them using "Original + Settings" one by one from the Lightroom Desktop app, putting them into that Mobile Downloads folder, after which LrC will detect them again. If there are a lot to deal with, you could select them all in LrC and add a Pick or Reject flag. Those flags would sync to the cloud, then in the Lightroom Desktop app filter on that flag to find all the affected images, then select them all and export in one operation to the Mobile Downloads folder. One all have been reconnected you could remove the flag and also drag them out of that folder into your Lightroom Sync folder on the external drive. ... View more

Post a screenshot of the LrC Preferences>Lightroom Sync tab. Post a screenshot from Finder of the contents of your Pictures folder. Post a screenshot of the LrC Folders Panel.....we need to see the bottom end of that panel.   If the synced images are listed as missing in LrC, chances are that you have inadvertently deleted the designated downloads folder. The screenshots will help us determine if that's the case.   P.S. Use the highlighted "Insert Photos" icon when adding screenshots:   ... View more

  From a customer / user point of view I see a huge benefit to anyone making first steps into this domain, if some experts made a comprehensive tutorial on how to practically address this (ie. you wish to have a Cloud app to sync on the move, a more complete Desktop app leveraging more sophisticated tools and finally you wanna make them talk someway). By @eric32035440sekv   There's a dedicated "Cloud Sync" section in this book: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/shop/adobe-lightroom-classic-missing-faq/   It will answer most of your questions regarding using the cloud with Lightroom Classic. There's a companion book which is dedicated to the use of the Lightroom cloud eco-system. ... View more

The "CC" thing was initially appended to most of the Adobe creative cloud related products, so Lightroom Classic was actually "Lightroom Classic CC", Photoshop was "Photoshop CC" and Lightroom was "Lightroom CC". Several years ago, the "CC" was dropped across the entire Adobe suite, but many users still post using the "LR CC" term. We wouldn't have a problem with that except that just before the introduction of the "Lightroom Classic" name (version 7.0), the previous version (Lightroom 6) had two names as it was available either as a perpetual license or via subscription. The perpetual license version was known usually known as "LR6", the subscription version was known as "Lightroom CC2015" which of course was shortened to "LR CC". More often than not we can figure out which version of Lightroom a user is referring to, but not always.....so whenever we see a poster using that "LR CC" term we'll generally try to explain that it no longer exists, in order to prevent future confusion.  ... View more

I don't know what, if anything, you are doing wrong, but instead of trying to figure that out you could try a different approach. The way I add albums (called "Pages") to Portfolio is by doing it the other way round, i.e. instead of sending albums to Portfolio from Lightroom, instead open Portfolio and then import the albums from the cloud into Portfolio. I have used the push method from Lightroom to Portfolio in the past (which did work), but I've just got into the habit now of pulling them directly into Portfolio.   So you could try that method, but first I'd clean up the Portfolio connection in the Lightroom Desktop app...if nothing has yet appeared in Portfolio I'd delete all the "projects" from the Portfolio Connection in Lightroom, then I'd open Portfolio in Edit mode (you can lauch Portfolio in that mode directly from the Creative Cloud app on your desktop).    When that is open, click on "Pages" in the Essentials section of the left-hand panel, then when that panel is open (it should be empty if all the "projects" have been deleted), click on the big "+" button at the bottom of the panel and from the resulting "Add Page" panel click on "Lightroom Album" and proceed to select the album(s) from the resulting list.   Does that work? ... View more

If you are using the "HDR" editing mode, then you have to fully understand how to deal with that when you export. I suggest you read through this thread from the Lightroom Classic forum (different version of Lightroom, but the issue is the same): https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lightroom-classic-hdr-export-issues-on-macbook-pro-m3-max/td-p/14580406   The message you received about the preview is just for information to explain why the HDR effect is not visible in the export preview window. ... View more

Can I just be clear on what you are doing when this error occurs? I assume you have run a search which then populates the grid with the results of that search. Then you are trying to flag specific images from that grid, and after you've flagged 4 the "Black Hole" message appears when you try to flag one more. Have I understood that correctly? If so, I can't reproduce that problem on my MacOS system. If your steps to produce are different to what I have assumed, please detail the exact steps that you are using. And are you using the Cloud or Local mode?   What version numbers of both Lightroom (note: there's no "CC" at the end, that was dropped several years ago), and MacOS are you using? ... View more

Wouldn't it be easier to import directly from your camera into Lightroom, rather than by going via your phone's Gallery app first? That way you would have all the Lightroom sort options available.   But if you don't want to do that, perhaps you could try one of the segmentation options, which may force the "Gallery" grid into capture date/time. You should find the segmentation options under the tri-dot icon top right while in the Gallery tab. I'm using an iOS device, but I assume the same segmentation options are available on Android. ... View more

So what happens when you tap on the Update button? ... View more

Greyed-out thumbnails in the Import panel usually mean that the photos have already been imported and are still cataloged. Hover the mouse over any one of those greyed-out thumbnails and you should see a tool-tip pop-up showing the file-name and capture date/time and an explanation of the issue. Typically you would see the message "This photo has already been imported". If that's not the message, post a screenshot of what it does say. ... View more

"Web Gallery" - do you mean using the Web module in LrC to setup a gallery on your own web-site, or do you mean using the "Shared Albums" feature of the Adobe cloud ecosystem?   If you mean sharing albums via the Adobe cloud, then you'd have a lot more control over what the viewer can see or do if you use the LrWeb browser-based app (login to your Adobe account at lightroom.adobe.com in a browser window). The share options are more extensive there, so you can setup what the viewer can do (view only, contribute, edit, download, add comments/likes) and what they can see (show/hide metadata and location info). ... View more

I don't think Adobe will let you add your watermark when you export images that are shared with you, on the basis that they're not your photos. I know that you'll say that they are, but Adobe wouldn't know that.   The solution is to do the sharing from your personal account, not the other way round. So you would create an album using your personal account, set the options to "Can Contribute" then send the invitation to your work account email address. From your work account email, accept the invitation, then open LrD  or LrWeb using the work account. The new shared album will appear in the "Shared with you" album list, select the images that you want in your personal account and add them to the new album. Now, when you log back into your personal account, open that new album and you should find that the watermark option will be available when you try to export. ... View more