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Minguy
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This pertains mainly to a new(?) AI behavior I'm discovering while using Lightroom Android v9.4.2 running on a Galaxy Tab S8, but it is a gripe about Lightroom in general, too.
I do most of my work on Classic, and I have lots of synced collections, but at the time of this experiment, I was using only the tablet and had sync deliberately PAUSED.
I moved a file I named, "Oppossum Eating".mp4 (it's adorable!) into the local tablet watchfolder I use for LR Mobile. Then I opened the app.
AGAIN: Sync was PAUSED at this time, so maybe that inhibits the import, I don't know, but regardless....
I did not see my just-imported file in the default "All Photos" view that showed up, (sorted by capture date), whereas normally (when syncing) I would.
Just for kicks, I then sorted "All Photos" by Import Date to refresh the display, and it still didn't return the Oppossum file.
Next, still not synced, I did a search for 'eating', hoping Lightroom would know that I just imported a file with that word in the filename at least.
I got a bunch of returns, none of which was the just-imported, local, Oppossum file, which clearly hadn't been imported after all, NOR were any other of the search results stored locally, but rather they were files from within my Lightroom Classic Catalog which happened to show people in close proximity to food.
I clicked on one of the eating pics that I recognized, whereupon a red warning popped up asking if I wanted to download some instance of this pic. I knew this was because I wasn't synced, and I clicked OK.
At this point I guess I had local access to file info, if there was any, and as you would expect, there was nothing in the metadata that had anything to do with "eating".
Bully for you, AI !!!, But no thanks.
So next I turned Sync back on, waited for the process to finish, and searched again for "eating".
At that point, the Oppossum pic was returned, along with all the other previously returned pics showing people eating.
So my observations and questions are these:
--Local import is not respected by "local" Lightroom. That really sucks when I want to edit a shoot on the go and sync it later at a time of my choosing; is there a right way to do this that I'm missing?
--I don't want AI to help me when I don't need it to; am I crazy for wanting to decide when AI is used for a given function?
--Finally, and I suppose my biggest gripe: I am a competent user, yet I am more confused than ever about what syncs with what and when; where can I find the pic I need even when I know damned well where it is; and why does there even need to be fifteen different instances of what Adobe calls "Lightroom" in the world. (Maybe not fifteen different Lightrooms, but more like twelve). Lightroom as it exists now seems to be like piling ever more bags of beans onto an erstwhile dependable donkey.
Thanks for bearing with my long-windedness and snark.
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I do most of my work on Classic, and I have lots of synced collections, but at the time of this experiment, I was using only the tablet and had sync deliberately PAUSED.
I moved a file I named, "Oppossum Eating".mp4 (it's adorable!) into the local tablet watchfolder I use for LR Mobile. Then I opened the app.
AGAIN: Sync was PAUSED at this time, so maybe that inhibits the import, I don't know, but regardless....
I did not see my just-imported file in the default "All Photos" view that showed up, (sorted by capture date), whereas normally (when syncing) I would.
Just for kicks, I then sorted "All Photos" by Import Date to refresh the display, and it still didn't return the Oppossum file.
Next, still not synced, I did a search for 'eating', hoping Lightroom would know that I just imported a file with that word in the filename at least.
I got a bunch of returns, none of which was the just-imported, local, Oppossum file, which clearly hadn't been imported after all, NOR were any other of the search results stored locally, but rather they were files from within my Lightroom Classic Catalog which happened to show people in close proximity to food.
I clicked on one of the eating pics that I recognized, whereupon a red warning popped up asking if I wanted to download some instance of this pic. I knew this was because I wasn't synced, and I clicked OK.
At this point I guess I had local access to file info, if there was any, and as you would expect, there was nothing in the metadata that had anything to do with "eating".
Bully for you, AI !!!, But no thanks.
So next I turned Sync back on, waited for the process to finish, and searched again for "eating".
At that point, the Oppossum pic was returned, along with all the other previously returned pics showing people eating.
So my observations and questions are these:
--Local import is not respected by "local" Lightroom. That really sucks when I want to edit a shoot on the go and sync it later at a time of my choosing; is there a right way to do this that I'm missing?
--I don't want AI to help me when I don't need it to; am I crazy for wanting to decide when AI is used for a given function?
--Finally, and I suppose my biggest gripe: I am a competent user, yet I am more confused than ever about what syncs with what and when; where can I find the pic I need even when I know damned well where it is; and why does there even need to be fifteen different instances of what Adobe calls "Lightroom" in the world. (Maybe not fifteen different Lightrooms, but more like twelve). Lightroom as it exists now seems to be like piling ever more bags of beans onto an erstwhile dependable donkey.
Thanks for bearing with my long-windedness and snark.
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