nIkedoni1a
Member
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2008
- Messages
- 63
- Location
- Orchard Park, NY
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- 12.0.1
- Operating System
- macOS 13 Ventura
- iOS
I'm having difficulty utilizing LrC on 2 computers. I keep my LrC catalog and images on a 4tb ss ext. hd. I thought it would be easier to work with my macbook traveling and switch the drive to my macpro desktop at home rather than going through the export/import catalog process each time. Lately I have been shooting with my iphone and have the Lightroom app on my phone set up to sync all the photos from the camera roll to adobe cloud. I have LrC on the macbook set to download those images from the cloud. I then create a folder in my normal hierarchy and drag the images I want out of "Synced Photos" and delete the rest and remove the empty synced photos folder.
Upon returning home i switched the ext. drive to my desktop macpro and I'm having 2 issues. The first is that the macpro it seems is attempting to sync all of my iphone images again and I'm seeing lots of exclamation marks. I'm not sure if this is because I have deleted images from the camera roll while away or if it is because while working on the macbook I dragged images out of the "Synced Photos" section and into the normal folder hierarchy and then deleted the ones I wasn't going to keep. At any rate the macpro is creating a mess in the "Synced Photos" section with lots of exclamation marks and since I had already culled images on the macbook I do not need the home computer to do any downloading of images at all. I think the answer here is that I should be syncing down from adobe cloud on only the macbook and some how turn off the downloading from the adobe cloud on the macpro. How to do this?
The other problem I am experiencing is that the folder I added to my hierarchy on the macbook and filled with the images dragged from "Synced Photos" doesn't appear when the drive is connected to the macpro desktop. Also a folder I created on the Macpro desktop does not appear when I plug the drive into the macbook. Both computers run Ventura and both have been updated and run LrC 12.1. I can see all the folders and images when I look at the folders using finder on either computers so I am not sure what the issue is. I have rebooted both machines so I'm not really sure what is going on here.
I still want to sync certain LrC collections to the adobe clouds so I can have those edited images always handy on my phone to share. I would think that since the catalog and images are on an external drive that I should be able to sync my LrC collections up to abobe cloud from either computer.
Thank you for helping me get a grasp here.
Upon returning home i switched the ext. drive to my desktop macpro and I'm having 2 issues. The first is that the macpro it seems is attempting to sync all of my iphone images again and I'm seeing lots of exclamation marks. I'm not sure if this is because I have deleted images from the camera roll while away or if it is because while working on the macbook I dragged images out of the "Synced Photos" section and into the normal folder hierarchy and then deleted the ones I wasn't going to keep. At any rate the macpro is creating a mess in the "Synced Photos" section with lots of exclamation marks and since I had already culled images on the macbook I do not need the home computer to do any downloading of images at all. I think the answer here is that I should be syncing down from adobe cloud on only the macbook and some how turn off the downloading from the adobe cloud on the macpro. How to do this?
The other problem I am experiencing is that the folder I added to my hierarchy on the macbook and filled with the images dragged from "Synced Photos" doesn't appear when the drive is connected to the macpro desktop. Also a folder I created on the Macpro desktop does not appear when I plug the drive into the macbook. Both computers run Ventura and both have been updated and run LrC 12.1. I can see all the folders and images when I look at the folders using finder on either computers so I am not sure what the issue is. I have rebooted both machines so I'm not really sure what is going on here.
I still want to sync certain LrC collections to the adobe clouds so I can have those edited images always handy on my phone to share. I would think that since the catalog and images are on an external drive that I should be able to sync my LrC collections up to abobe cloud from either computer.
Thank you for helping me get a grasp here.