- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom version 5
- Operating System
- macOS 12 Monterey
I have a question about the "auto add" feature in Lightroom, which automatically adds photos from Camera Roll in iOS to Lightroom.
If I enable it now, will it work retroactively? i.e. will it add all photos from Camera Roll that aren't currently in Lightroom? The reason I ask is that I just did enable it, and then when I tapped on the cloud icon to check sync status, it says "Auto-importing from Camera Roll", and under that, it says "11470 pending". Does that mean it's trying to import 11470 photos from Camera Roll? Yikes!
If so, is there a way to enable it for new photos only? I'm trying to decide whether to enable this at all. On the one hand, I like the idea of all of my photos being in one place. On the other hand, quite a few of my iPhone photos are not keepers. Sometimes my 10-year old daughter gets a hold of the phone or an iPad that is laying around and takes about 134 pictures of our dog, 75% of which are blurry. And with my Fujifilm X-T4 photos, I do not import everything from the SD card. I first use Photo Mechanic to sort and cull, and then I only import keepers to Lightroom.
So, maybe I should do the same with my iPhone photos... leave auto-add off and then selectively "send" photos from Camera Roll that I want to have in Lightroom. The problem with this is that, while I am conditioned to add photos from the X-T4 after every shoot, I am not conditioned to do this with the iPhone. Maybe I need to set up a reminder to add selects/keepers every 2-3 days until I get into the habit.
Curious to know what you all do?
If I enable it now, will it work retroactively? i.e. will it add all photos from Camera Roll that aren't currently in Lightroom? The reason I ask is that I just did enable it, and then when I tapped on the cloud icon to check sync status, it says "Auto-importing from Camera Roll", and under that, it says "11470 pending". Does that mean it's trying to import 11470 photos from Camera Roll? Yikes!
If so, is there a way to enable it for new photos only? I'm trying to decide whether to enable this at all. On the one hand, I like the idea of all of my photos being in one place. On the other hand, quite a few of my iPhone photos are not keepers. Sometimes my 10-year old daughter gets a hold of the phone or an iPad that is laying around and takes about 134 pictures of our dog, 75% of which are blurry. And with my Fujifilm X-T4 photos, I do not import everything from the SD card. I first use Photo Mechanic to sort and cull, and then I only import keepers to Lightroom.
So, maybe I should do the same with my iPhone photos... leave auto-add off and then selectively "send" photos from Camera Roll that I want to have in Lightroom. The problem with this is that, while I am conditioned to add photos from the X-T4 after every shoot, I am not conditioned to do this with the iPhone. Maybe I need to set up a reminder to add selects/keepers every 2-3 days until I get into the habit.
Curious to know what you all do?