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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 for mobile clients, photographs must be in Collections. Photos within a synced Collection are automatically available on your mobile device and Lightroom Web.
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 Mobile from the context menu.
To stop a Collection from syncing with your device, do one of the following in the Collections panel:
- Click the sync icon next to the name of the Collection.
- Right-click a Collection and deselect Sync With Lightroom Mobile from the context menu.
Warning that appears when you choose to stop syncing a Collection with Lightroom for mobile
Settings for Lightroom for mobile sync features are available in the Preferences folder. To access the Preferences dialog, choose Edit (Win)/Lightroom (Mac) menu > Preferences > Lightroom mobile tab.
On the Lightroom Mobile preferences tab, you can view more information about your account. You can also delete synced information. Delete All Data deletes all information about your photos from Lightroom for mobile, including previews, metadata, and develop settings. However, it doesn't delete your original photos. They remain on the machine and aren't affected. All the collections are also preserved, but their Lightroom mobile sync settings are reset.
You can select Prevent System Sleep During Sync option to stop your computer from sleeping while Lightroom desktop is syncing images with your Lightroom for mobile.
By default, Lightroom desktop syncs your Lightroom mobile 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 mobile images and also specify a folder structure.
Specify Location for Lightroom Mobile Images
Select this option to choose a preferred path for the mobile downloads.
Use Subfolders Formatted By Capture Date
Select this option to choose a preferred subfolder format for downloading mobile images within the location specified above.
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Lightroom for mobile is not a backup service. Lightroom desktop does not sync your original raw files to the cloud and to Lightroom for mobile. Lightroom desktop creates and syncs images to the cloud in the form of Smart Previews. Smart Previews are smaller versions of your original files, roughly 1.5 or 2 MB in size, and retain all the flexibility of a raw file. Changes made to Smart Previews automatically sync with your originals.
Photos within the synced collections in Lightroom CC on your desktop are automatically available in other Lightroom mobile clients and Adobe Creative Cloud mobile app.
To sync your Lightroom collections with Adobe Creative Cloud mobile app:
In Lightroom CC on your desktop, ensure that Sync With Lightroom Mobile option is 'on'.
See Set up Lightroom for sync for details.
In the Collections panel, ensure that Sync With Lightroom Mobile option is set for those collections that you want to sync.
See Set up Collections for details.
Synced Lightroom collections in the Creative Cloud mobile app.
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Creative Cloud mobile app only displays those photos that are part of a synced collection in Lightroom CC on your desktop. Photos in a Smart Collection are not synced.
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