Adobe Lightroom Classic Not Syncing

Start lightroom while holding the shift option macos or shift alt keys windows.

Adobe lightroom classic not syncing. For more details see recover catalog and images after resetting preferences. In that preferences screen hold down altopt and you should get a message about rebuilding the local sync data file. While customizing the location for lightrooms synced images you can choose to move the downloaded images to the new location. So you cannot sync from lightroom classic application in one computer to lightroom classic application on another computer.

With lightroom closed go to usersintellibrarycachesadobelightroomsync data and remove or rename the synclrdata folder. Create a new collection in classic and sync it is it shown in lightroom web. Restart lr and it should try to reconcile your local synced data and the cloud synced data. Just so you are aware you can only sync one lightroom classic catalog to the creative cloud at any point in time.

This can take a while depending on your machine network connection and the number of synced images. That usually does the trick. A dialog box asks if you want to reset preferences or start normally. Restart lightroom and it should try to reconcile your local synced data and the cloud synced data.

Lightroom classic will not download the images that are already downloaded and all those images will be marked as unavailable.