> > Adobe’s cloud-based design is apparently based on an audience with a totally > different perspective, those who are constantly connected to high-sped > internet and who want every image sucked off their devices and stored in > Adobe’s Cloud to be shared with the world.
This is rather a caricature. Storing it in the cloud does not mean sharing it with the world. Storing things in the cloud is a perfectly reasonable off-site backup. And since it’s so easy and convenient to have everything available from each device, instead of being the backup it’s perfectly reasonable for it to be the primary storage, and for people to use something like LR Classic’s device storage as the backup in case Adobe’s one, never-backed-up, wobbly old PC has a head crash (I can do caricatures too!). LR Mobile caches everything locally before it tries to sync it to the cloud, so if you have no internet connection, or a slow or wobbly one, you’re not losing anything and it will trickle-feed it as and when it can. If I were travelling somewhere very, very remote for any length of time I’d back the SD cards up to a separate storage device, and keep the images on the SD cards, as well as importing them into LR Mobile. I’ve never needed this sort of belt & braces approach in Europe. The downside of the mobile version, to me, is that it doesn’t have some of the useful functionality of the classic version, but it’s functionality I don’t usually need when I’m travelling. > On 26 Jul 2023, at 20:36, Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > > I use a MacBook Pro, at home and when traveling. I use Lightroom Classic. I > seldom need or intentionally use Adobe’s cloud synch features. > On my upcoming trip I will try using LR Mobile on my iPad (and leave my > laptop home) and so there are some aspects of that app that will not work if > it is not actively on the net. But mostly I will have internet access turned > off. > > The LR Mobile approach to synching, and most of Adobe’s cloud-based design is > apparently based on an audience with a totally different perspective, those > who are constantly connected to high-sped internet and who want every image > sucked off their devices and stored in Adobe’s Cloud to be shared with the > world. I like the functionality of LR Classic and am grateful that they > retained this alternative to the Cloud-based apps. > > Back when I had both a desktop Mac and my laptop, I did have LR Classic on > both machines and never had an issue unless I tried to have both running at > the same time. > > Stan > >> On Jul 26, 2023, at 11:56 AM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have Lightroom Classic running on this here Mac mini, with my photos on >> external hard drives. >> We’re going to be doing some traveling, and I’d like to have LR on my >> MacBook Pro. There is loads of room on its internal drive. >> What flavor of LR should I install on my laptop that won’t insist on using >> the cloud? Will Adobe allow me to download another copy of LrC? >> Their website is completely un-helpful, alas. >> Rick >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
