I'm asking this question here because I know that many of you would find this feature extremely helpful, especially if you're a busy working / traveling photographer like me. I also know that some of you here either work for Adobe or are somehow affiliated, so hopefully, you'll be able to chime in on this as well.
Adobe is in the business of making money (duh) and have incorporated a rather assertive (read: annoying) campaign of selling space on their servers. Would it not make sense then, to allow for LR users to store their catalogs (with the caveat / necessity of including storage-consuming smart-previews) in the Cloud? Adobe had even changed the name of Lightroom to Lightroom Classic Creative Cloud (cough and shudder) so why haven't they included the most helpful and obvious function of them all for LR users?
I understand that we still can't keep a LR Catalog on a local server for whatever reason, but in 2023 I'm starting to become a bit impatient at the absence of this elephant-in-the-room solution to my workflow problem...* (my workflow goes something like: I work on a catalog of images at the studio, then have to travel for a shoot for 5 days with my laptop in a hotel room where I imagine the convenience of being able to continue working on my studio catalog in my spare time and then return home to find it all synced up)
I'd love to know why this isn't a thing yet and why, at the very least, I can't access my ever-evolving develop presets via Adobe's Cloud without having to manually export them, upload them, then download them, and resync them on my own.
If anyone can chime in here on whether or not I'm missing something or why Adobe can't seem to deliver this extremely useful feature, I'd love to hear it.
Thanks for reading.
TLDR: No Catalog or Preset Sync via Adobe CC. Why not?
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