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Do you use Lightroom Classic CC and Lightroom CC along with syncing services such as Microsoft OneDrive or Apple iCloud Drive on your computer? To avoid unintentionally consuming your syncing client's online storage, make sure that you exclude the Location for Lightroom CC Ecosystem's Images in your syncing client's settings. Alternatively, in the Lightroom Sync preferences of Lightroom Classic CC, you can specify another folder location for downloading Lightroom CC ecosystem's images that is not marked for uploading to your syncing service's online storage.
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On the Sign in screen, you might get an option to choose between a personal or an enterprise account. For more information, see Switch from Adobe ID to Enterprise ID.
To sync with Lightroom Classic photos with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC apps, the photographs must be in synced Collections. Photos within a synced Collection are automatically available in Lightroom CC on your desktop, mobile, and web.
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Click the Sync icon to ensure that the pictures in the Collections are synced with your device
A. Non-synced Collection B. Synced Collection (bi-directional arrow icon)Note:
You can also right click an existing Collection, and click Sync With Lightroom CC from the context menu.
In the Lightroom Sync tab of the Preferences dialog box, you can specify the settings for syncing photos between Lightroom Classic CC and Lightroom CC ecosystem of apps. To access the sync preferences in Lightroom Classic, choose Edit (Win)/Lightroom Classic CC (Mac) menu > Preferences > Lightroom Sync tab.
In the Account area, you can view information about your account: Adobe ID, Name, Status, Subscribed, End Date, Uploads. You can click More Account Info Online to access your Adobe ID account online, and sign in with your Adobe ID (your email address) and password.
Delete All Synced Data removes all the image data and synced information from Creative Cloud, including previews, metadata, and develop settings. Original photos stored on your computer aren't affected. All the collections are also preserved, but their sync settings are reset.
You can select Prevent System Sleep During Sync option to stop your computer from sleeping while Lightroom Classic CC desktop is syncing images with Lightroom CC ecosystem of apps.
By default, Lightroom Classic CC desktop syncs your Lightroom CC ecosystem images at:
- (Win) C:\Users\[user name]\Pictures
- (Mac) /Users/[user name]/Pictures
You can use the following options to choose a preferred location for Lightroom CC ecosystem images and also specify a folder structure.
Use Subfolders Formatted By Capture Date
Select this option to choose a preferred subfolder format for downloading Lightroom CC ecosystem's images within the location specified above.
Photos within the synced collections in Lightroom Classic CC on your desktop are automatically available Adobe Creative Cloud mobile app.
To access your synced Lightroom Classic CC Collection photos in the Adobe Creative Cloud mobile app, do the following:
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In Lightroom Classic CC on your desktop, ensure that Sync With Lightroom CC option is 'on'.
See Set up Lightroom Classic CC for sync for details.
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In the Collections panel, ensure that Sync With Lightroom CC option is set for those collections that you want to sync.
See Set up Collections for details.
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