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- Apr 26, 2018
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- Ohio, USA
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Hi everyone,
As I have contemplated my LR eco-system setup for 2020, I want to shift to work primarily in Cloudy going forward. That means editing and always importing using LR instead of Classic.
Advanced asset management, in my opinion, is still too hard to do in Cloudy, until we get Smart Collections and other advanced filtering options and better bulk editing tools.
I have the 1 TB plan but I have never added the originals because I added all my photos in Classic via the ALL SYNCED PHOTOS route. Therefore I am only using about 50Gb of the plan since all my photos are Smart Previews (except for the ones getting added via devices).
I have my originals backed up in various ways but as I look to simplification, it seems wasteful to not be using the 1 TB plan for originals.
Victoria in Missing FAQs writes:
“• Add all of your photos to the All Synced Photographs collection in Lightroom Classic’s Catalog panel, wait for the smart previews to all upload to the cloud, wait for all of the photos to download to Lightroom CC on the same machine, and then add the same original photos into Lightroom CC. Lightroom CC should be smart enough to recognize that these are originals of existing synced photos, and just upload the originals to the cloud, without duplicating the photos.
Remember, these are not officially recommended or sanctioned workflows, so they won’t undergo official testing. However, I know many of my readers like to push technology to the limits, and I’d rather you were aware of the known issues before experimenting by yourself!”
Excerpt From: Victoria Bampton. “Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ (v9.0-2019).” Apple Books.
So I did a trial yesterday and added about 5,000 photos from 2011 to LR Cloudy from my folders that Classic looks to. Before adding, I did hit SAVE to write all metadata to files. Of course, all photos were duplicated when I got done adding them. But now, after a 12 hour wait, LR has not made any effort to match them and I am showing 10,000 photos in my 2011 collection. UGH!
I am looking for advice on how to proceed to move my originals (which total about 700GB) to Cloudy, without disturbing my sync with Classic.
Also, referring to Victoria’s text above, how does the uploaded original come to have the SAME editing adjustments as the uploaded Smart Preview? See my screen shot: both versions show the EXACT same editing.
Does it take a series of days for Sensei to de-duplicate?
I did read on another forum that someone advised filtering for “synced from Lightroom” and then deleting those. Thoughts?
PS: I do not want to use the migration tool because of it being a 1 way process (I am not giving up Classic to that degree yet!)
Thanks
As I have contemplated my LR eco-system setup for 2020, I want to shift to work primarily in Cloudy going forward. That means editing and always importing using LR instead of Classic.
Advanced asset management, in my opinion, is still too hard to do in Cloudy, until we get Smart Collections and other advanced filtering options and better bulk editing tools.
I have the 1 TB plan but I have never added the originals because I added all my photos in Classic via the ALL SYNCED PHOTOS route. Therefore I am only using about 50Gb of the plan since all my photos are Smart Previews (except for the ones getting added via devices).
I have my originals backed up in various ways but as I look to simplification, it seems wasteful to not be using the 1 TB plan for originals.
Victoria in Missing FAQs writes:
“• Add all of your photos to the All Synced Photographs collection in Lightroom Classic’s Catalog panel, wait for the smart previews to all upload to the cloud, wait for all of the photos to download to Lightroom CC on the same machine, and then add the same original photos into Lightroom CC. Lightroom CC should be smart enough to recognize that these are originals of existing synced photos, and just upload the originals to the cloud, without duplicating the photos.
Remember, these are not officially recommended or sanctioned workflows, so they won’t undergo official testing. However, I know many of my readers like to push technology to the limits, and I’d rather you were aware of the known issues before experimenting by yourself!”
Excerpt From: Victoria Bampton. “Adobe Lightroom Classic - The Missing FAQ (v9.0-2019).” Apple Books.
So I did a trial yesterday and added about 5,000 photos from 2011 to LR Cloudy from my folders that Classic looks to. Before adding, I did hit SAVE to write all metadata to files. Of course, all photos were duplicated when I got done adding them. But now, after a 12 hour wait, LR has not made any effort to match them and I am showing 10,000 photos in my 2011 collection. UGH!
I am looking for advice on how to proceed to move my originals (which total about 700GB) to Cloudy, without disturbing my sync with Classic.
Also, referring to Victoria’s text above, how does the uploaded original come to have the SAME editing adjustments as the uploaded Smart Preview? See my screen shot: both versions show the EXACT same editing.
Does it take a series of days for Sensei to de-duplicate?
I did read on another forum that someone advised filtering for “synced from Lightroom” and then deleting those. Thoughts?
PS: I do not want to use the migration tool because of it being a 1 way process (I am not giving up Classic to that degree yet!)
Thanks