- Lightroom Version Number
- 3.3
- Operating System
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
My understanding is that Lightroom Cloudy only uploads the original (unedited) photos to the Adobe Cloud. The edits and album info are in the Library.
As far as I can tell the Cloudy Library is also in the Adobe Cloud, because when I have cloned a drive containing the Library, and then tried to open the cloned Library, I get a message "cloned Library detected". The resolution is to delete the Library and sign in to download a new copy. Similarly on a new computer it is only necessary to sign in and the Library downloads. Both times these have worked well.
Because the cloned library is 'rejected' with the cloned library message, there doesn't seem to be any point in making a local backup of the Library. Is that correct? Are there any circumstances where a local backup copy of the Library could be useful?
(I don't keep a local copy of the Cloudy originals because my Cloudy is sync'd with my Classic which has all the originals locally, with local and offsite backups).
As far as I can tell the Cloudy Library is also in the Adobe Cloud, because when I have cloned a drive containing the Library, and then tried to open the cloned Library, I get a message "cloned Library detected". The resolution is to delete the Library and sign in to download a new copy. Similarly on a new computer it is only necessary to sign in and the Library downloads. Both times these have worked well.
Because the cloned library is 'rejected' with the cloned library message, there doesn't seem to be any point in making a local backup of the Library. Is that correct? Are there any circumstances where a local backup copy of the Library could be useful?
(I don't keep a local copy of the Cloudy originals because my Cloudy is sync'd with my Classic which has all the originals locally, with local and offsite backups).