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I may have made a grave error in the way I tried to do this.
Been using Classic for half-dozen years. Have 25K photos. Did not like Lightroom (CC) when it arrived. Now seems fine. So I "added" all my pictures (25K) to Lightroom (online) yesterday. Seems to have simply uploaded them to LR as desired.
Now, question is, are they there?
I did NOT "migrate" or do anything involving the word migrate. I have both LR and Classic on my hard drive. What I think I did was copy (upload or add) all photos from "Pictures" folder (which I use in Classic) to Lightroom online. This didn't take too long. Couple hours maybe, maybe a little longer. Now I can see everything on Lightroom online (in the Lightroom Online desktop app) and the file sizes show up as they should be for various pix (I shoot JPG with Sony RX100 VI or Panny FZ1000 and iPhone, of course).
So now I was thinking of UNINSTALLING LR CLASSIC from HD and DELETING all pictures in the Pictures folder associated with CLASSIC, on assumption they are now in cloud and managed by Lightroom Online. But I don't know what LR(online) is doing for local copies. Could it be that it is using the files I uploaded from my Pictures folder as it's local copies?
If so, this is the easiest way I can imagine to switch between Classic and LR. On other hand, I have a feeling, and all my reading supports this, that the change from Classic to LR Online CANNOT be this easy.
I would appreciate any/all ideas and opinions about this.
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Been using Classic for half-dozen years. Have 25K photos. Did not like Lightroom (CC) when it arrived. Now seems fine. So I "added" all my pictures (25K) to Lightroom (online) yesterday. Seems to have simply uploaded them to LR as desired.
Now, question is, are they there?
I did NOT "migrate" or do anything involving the word migrate. I have both LR and Classic on my hard drive. What I think I did was copy (upload or add) all photos from "Pictures" folder (which I use in Classic) to Lightroom online. This didn't take too long. Couple hours maybe, maybe a little longer. Now I can see everything on Lightroom online (in the Lightroom Online desktop app) and the file sizes show up as they should be for various pix (I shoot JPG with Sony RX100 VI or Panny FZ1000 and iPhone, of course).
So now I was thinking of UNINSTALLING LR CLASSIC from HD and DELETING all pictures in the Pictures folder associated with CLASSIC, on assumption they are now in cloud and managed by Lightroom Online. But I don't know what LR(online) is doing for local copies. Could it be that it is using the files I uploaded from my Pictures folder as it's local copies?
If so, this is the easiest way I can imagine to switch between Classic and LR. On other hand, I have a feeling, and all my reading supports this, that the change from Classic to LR Online CANNOT be this easy.
I would appreciate any/all ideas and opinions about this.
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