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I prefer to call it "Lightroom Mobile for Laptops and Desktops"
Currently there is not enough functionality in Lightroom CC to justify migration to it.
OK so I let the new Lr sync, pointing it at an empty drive, and it shows 300K photos, but most albums are empty... I figured out what it is -- a glorified lightroom.adobe.com! Probably should forget about it and do thing in Classic as before...
I made this comment on the Lr Journal but it did not make it past the censors.
So I'm a little confused. I took a few pictures yesterday and downloaded them to the new Lightroom Classic. I created a shared collection that showed up in the new Lightroom CC. I checked and they were also on Lightroom.adobe.com. Lightroom CC indicates that those images are not yet backed up in the cloud. Then where are they? I don't get it.
If you added them to LR Classic and synced from there, only Smart Previews are uploaded to the ecosystem and made available in LRCC/LRmobile/LRWeb (so the answer to the "where are they" question is: on your hard drive where you imported to). If you want originals in the cloud, import/upload using anything apart from Classic. Classic will get them (as originals) when the sync upload has completed.
By the way, no need to remove them and re-import from a different app.....add them again, but this time into LRCC. It should realise these are originals of the smart previews already held, add them without creating duplicates, upload them to the ecosystem to replace the Smart Previews, and have zero effect on LR Classic, except that the latter now also knows that an original is now in the cloud. That's the theory, anyway, and yes I have tested it and it worked for me.
If you want originals in the cloud, import/upload using anything apart from Classic. Classic will get them (as originals) when the sync upload has completed.
Yes, that's what happens, though being pedantic it's not "LR Mobile" that does the matching, it's Lightroom CC.Jim -- this is very important, so let me unpack this to confirm.
Say I have some Smart Previews in LR Classic CC uploaded to Lr Mobile.
Are you saying you can add the same original DNGs to the LrCC and then Lr Mobile magically matches them rot what it already has? How? By file name?
I'm quite excited about the fact I can now use this for rating and keyboarding on the laptop without having to move the catalog back and forth, the main idea behind LrCC as the catalog is in the cloud. The limited DAM tools are annoyingly deficient but hopefully it will do, we'll see.
I've found that I can add selected photos to albums by right-clicking on albums, which does give me the minimal viable DAM. So that's good.