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Syncing between Different Versions

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alanhills50

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8.4.1 and 9.3
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  2. macOS 10.14 Mojave
I have Lightroom Classic 9.3 on an iMac running Mojave and Lightroom Classic 8.4.1 on a MacBook running Sierra. I have synced images on the iMac to the Adobe Cloud. When I try to find the cloud on MacBook there does not appear to be a sync icon in the upper right hand corner although under the Catalogue upper left hand side under 'All synced photographs' there are no images. Why please?

My original thinking was that when I am on holiday say, I could put images on my MacBook from my camera, process them in Lightroom Classic and upload them to the cloud already done for printing when I get home. Does the history and all the meta data changes done in the develop module also go with the image and if so is this all imported to the iMac catalogue please?
 
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I will try some answers-
1) You can only ever sync ONE Lr-Classic catalog to the Cloud ecosystem, that being from the iMac v9.3.
2) Classic 8.4.1 on the Macbook does not have the 'upper-right' sync icon (a new feature in v9.3).
3) You need High Sierra, or better, to upgrade the Macbook to v9.3
4) Because of 1) you will not see 'All synced Photographs' in the Macbook.
5) You would require- macOS v10.13 or later to run the 'Cloud' version 3.3 of Lightroom on the MacBook, if you wanted to sync files from the MacBook via the cloud. (Sierra = v10.12)

With your current hardware & software versions, your one option is- NOT to use Cloud syncing, but instead use 'Import from another Catalog' to merge the MacBook catalog to the iMac catalog when you arrive home.
And, note, this would also require upgrading the MacBook catalog from 8.4.1 to 9.3 before you merge the catalogs.
Merging Catalogs - The Overview | The Lightroom Queen
 
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You can also use Lightroom Cloudy on the mobile computer and this will sync to the cloud and back to you master Lightroom Classic Cataloged on the computer running 9.3.
 
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