How temporarily stop Lightroom syncing?

[mikebore]

Lightroom Version Number

5.3.1

Operating System

1. iOS

I am on holiday in a remote cottage with negligible internet. How do I stop Lightroom trying to upload photos for the week, and hogging what little bandwidth there is.

There doesn’t seem to be an obvious setting, unless I have to sign out.

Thanks

 

[Paul McFarlane]

Hi

Click on the little cloud icon, there's the option to Pause Syncing.

Have a good holiday!

 

[mikebore]

Thanks very much Paul. Do I win the prize for the easiest question of the week?!

 

[Paul McFarlane]

We like easy!!!

 

[BobH53]

I have a related question (I think another easy one): I would like to be able to load a day‘s worth of shooting into LR on the iPadPro, but not have them sync to LR Classic on my desktop at home until I have done some preliminary culling and general edits. I presume the right thing would be to first pause syncing, then import the photos from my camera into LR on the iPad, do the editing, then enable syncing? Thanks.

Bob

 

[Jim Wilde]

Yes, that's certainly what you could do. The only thing to bear in mind is that while you have syncing paused, you should ensure you have a backup copy of the images (e.g. don't reformat the camera's memory card until the images have been synced to the cloud, or alternatively make a backup copy of the card to an external portable device).

 

[BobH53]

Thanks, Jim. I didn’t mention that, before loading into LR, I copy the original photos to a portable SSD.....as they say “just in case”.