rtfraser86
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- Windows 10
Hi Guys
I think I've truly stuffed up on this one! This is a Lightroom Classic post, although I'll be mentioning Lightroom CC a lot at the start.
Background
I am a long-time Lightroom Classic user. I've got a "Master Catalogue" of over 50,000 photos. These photos are sorted into a folder structure that I (shoot location and date).
Recently, I started using the "Sync with Lightroom" function in Classic to "back up" specific collections to the cloud. This initially worked alright, but Lightroom CC didn't allow nested folders/albums, so, I was unable to organise the "Sync'd" photos according to how I liked, so I stopped using it.... but then they introduced Folders, and I could make nested structures... yay! (?)
Start of the Stuff Up (unbeknownst to me)
Anyway... I go on holiday, with a new camera, and start shooting away. Every night I was downloading photos from the card onto my laptop, and importing into a Separate, Trip Specific, Lightroom Classic catalogue. All good. But then I started to run out of space, AND was holstered up for 3 days at somewhere with unlimited internet. So I thought, i'd
a) Import the photos into Lightroom CC
b) make a backup on an external hard drive
I got to REALLY liking the ability to import to Lightroom CC , and make picks/rejects from my mobile etc and it all syncs up. You beauty, all looking good. it would take the majority of the 3 days we were held up to upload the photos to the Cloud (250GB), but yeah, this looked good!
Stuff-up continues (unbeknownst to me)
Then i started to run out of space again. After some googling, I found out that, Lightroom CC, bless it's little heart, copies your originals into its own folder structure before uploading to the cloud. After some googling etc. I found out how to move that off to an external drive too.
So now in my workflow, because I was unfamiliar with Lightoom CC, I'd manually copy off the photos from my SD Card into my External Drive to the folder structure that I liked, and then upload. I thought "ah well, I'll end up with duplicates, but if everything goes alright with Lightroom CC, all good, I'll get rid of one set".
Stuff up intensifies (unbeknownst to me)
I get home and boot up the Desktop computer, and you beauty, it Lightroom Classic starts to sync and download all the images I'd uploaded to Lightroom CC into collections under the "From Lightroom" collection. It's not nested, like I set up in Lightroom CC with folders... but ah well, I spent a good 45min adding "Collection Sets" and organising it so I liked. It's stil downloading the photos, but they'll all come in like I want them to, just got to give it time.
Where I start to become aware of the stuff up
Well i quickly start running out of room on my C:\ Drive on my desktop computer. I think that it's the Panoramas I'm making in Lightroom CC while Lightroom Classic keeps downloading (my desktop is 20x more powerful than my laptop which couldn't handle a lot of the pano's I wanted to make).... I think this is a Lightroom CC issue, as it does fill up disk space (as page-file memory) when making Panoramas.
The Stuff Up
I use a directory statistics tool to see my biggest directories... it's a nice little folder called "Pictures\Lightroom\Mobile Downloads.lrdata". It's about 100GB and growing.
I go in to discover that it's the originals of the images I synced to Lightroom CC.
So now, i have the following copies of my images I took on holiday
1) On the External Hard Drive where I manually moved them, organised how I like
2) On the External Hard Drive where I pointed Lightroom CC to copy them to upload to the cloud, unorganised as Lightroom CC likes to do that; and
3) On my desktop under "Pictures\Lightroom\Mobile Downloads.lrdata", unorganised, because, you know, Lightroom is the bomb like that.
I've started to move the files (in Lightroom) from the "Imported Photos" section which points to the "Pictures\Lightroom\Mobile Downloads.lrdata" folder... onto a 4th location, so I can track everything, and to free up disk space on my main boot drive. But, oh no, If I delete anything from the "Pictures\Lightroom\Mobile Downloads.lrdata" folder, it'll delete it from Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic
Where to from here
I'd LOVE it if I could have the photos in my Main Lightroom Classic catalogue in their own nested Collection Set. I'd also LOVE it if I could pick up my iPad (and/or iPhone) and make picks/rejects and do some edits, and have it all sync up. I'd eventually like to push some of these to adobe portfolio if I could.
To do that, I'm thinking of starting again. I'd delete all photos from location 2), 3) and 4), as well as Lightroom CC, and just import them to Lightroom Classic, and using the "Sync Collection" option to upload them to the cloud. But I've done a whole heap of edits and picks, I'd love not to lose that.
Any help with the way forward would be much appreciated!
At this stage I cannot believe I pay $25AUD a month for this! If I had unlimited space and let my computer go, I'd end up with 4x copies of a recent 250GB photo holiday, 1 of which I manually managed myself, and the other 3 that Lightroom decided to make..;. NOT counting the originals stored on the cloud!.
I think I've truly stuffed up on this one! This is a Lightroom Classic post, although I'll be mentioning Lightroom CC a lot at the start.
Background
I am a long-time Lightroom Classic user. I've got a "Master Catalogue" of over 50,000 photos. These photos are sorted into a folder structure that I (shoot location and date).
Recently, I started using the "Sync with Lightroom" function in Classic to "back up" specific collections to the cloud. This initially worked alright, but Lightroom CC didn't allow nested folders/albums, so, I was unable to organise the "Sync'd" photos according to how I liked, so I stopped using it.... but then they introduced Folders, and I could make nested structures... yay! (?)
Start of the Stuff Up (unbeknownst to me)
Anyway... I go on holiday, with a new camera, and start shooting away. Every night I was downloading photos from the card onto my laptop, and importing into a Separate, Trip Specific, Lightroom Classic catalogue. All good. But then I started to run out of space, AND was holstered up for 3 days at somewhere with unlimited internet. So I thought, i'd
a) Import the photos into Lightroom CC
b) make a backup on an external hard drive
I got to REALLY liking the ability to import to Lightroom CC , and make picks/rejects from my mobile etc and it all syncs up. You beauty, all looking good. it would take the majority of the 3 days we were held up to upload the photos to the Cloud (250GB), but yeah, this looked good!
Stuff-up continues (unbeknownst to me)
Then i started to run out of space again. After some googling, I found out that, Lightroom CC, bless it's little heart, copies your originals into its own folder structure before uploading to the cloud. After some googling etc. I found out how to move that off to an external drive too.
So now in my workflow, because I was unfamiliar with Lightoom CC, I'd manually copy off the photos from my SD Card into my External Drive to the folder structure that I liked, and then upload. I thought "ah well, I'll end up with duplicates, but if everything goes alright with Lightroom CC, all good, I'll get rid of one set".
Stuff up intensifies (unbeknownst to me)
I get home and boot up the Desktop computer, and you beauty, it Lightroom Classic starts to sync and download all the images I'd uploaded to Lightroom CC into collections under the "From Lightroom" collection. It's not nested, like I set up in Lightroom CC with folders... but ah well, I spent a good 45min adding "Collection Sets" and organising it so I liked. It's stil downloading the photos, but they'll all come in like I want them to, just got to give it time.
Where I start to become aware of the stuff up
Well i quickly start running out of room on my C:\ Drive on my desktop computer. I think that it's the Panoramas I'm making in Lightroom CC while Lightroom Classic keeps downloading (my desktop is 20x more powerful than my laptop which couldn't handle a lot of the pano's I wanted to make).... I think this is a Lightroom CC issue, as it does fill up disk space (as page-file memory) when making Panoramas.
The Stuff Up
I use a directory statistics tool to see my biggest directories... it's a nice little folder called "Pictures\Lightroom\Mobile Downloads.lrdata". It's about 100GB and growing.
I go in to discover that it's the originals of the images I synced to Lightroom CC.
So now, i have the following copies of my images I took on holiday
1) On the External Hard Drive where I manually moved them, organised how I like
2) On the External Hard Drive where I pointed Lightroom CC to copy them to upload to the cloud, unorganised as Lightroom CC likes to do that; and
3) On my desktop under "Pictures\Lightroom\Mobile Downloads.lrdata", unorganised, because, you know, Lightroom is the bomb like that.
I've started to move the files (in Lightroom) from the "Imported Photos" section which points to the "Pictures\Lightroom\Mobile Downloads.lrdata" folder... onto a 4th location, so I can track everything, and to free up disk space on my main boot drive. But, oh no, If I delete anything from the "Pictures\Lightroom\Mobile Downloads.lrdata" folder, it'll delete it from Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic
Where to from here
I'd LOVE it if I could have the photos in my Main Lightroom Classic catalogue in their own nested Collection Set. I'd also LOVE it if I could pick up my iPad (and/or iPhone) and make picks/rejects and do some edits, and have it all sync up. I'd eventually like to push some of these to adobe portfolio if I could.
To do that, I'm thinking of starting again. I'd delete all photos from location 2), 3) and 4), as well as Lightroom CC, and just import them to Lightroom Classic, and using the "Sync Collection" option to upload them to the cloud. But I've done a whole heap of edits and picks, I'd love not to lose that.
Any help with the way forward would be much appreciated!
At this stage I cannot believe I pay $25AUD a month for this! If I had unlimited space and let my computer go, I'd end up with 4x copies of a recent 250GB photo holiday, 1 of which I manually managed myself, and the other 3 that Lightroom decided to make..;. NOT counting the originals stored on the cloud!.