Yes, Adobe has added some of the missing features since the cloud version launched back in 2017 (yes, it’s been that long), and the editing photos part of ‘cloud’ is getting close to being in parity with what you have in Classic, but there is just still so much it can’t do once you get outside of editing, and preparing this class was yet another reminder of how far it still has to go (and yet, it costs twice the monthly price because you need to pay for cloud storage, and I know what you’re thinking, 1TB is not NEARLY enough. And while there are parts of my system I can skip altogether (thanks to the cloud backup in the cloud version), there are a number of parts, organizational-wise, that you still can’t do in “cloud.” In fact, I’m surprised at how many things still haven’t made their way from Classic over to the ‘cloud’ version of Lightroom after all this time. I realize I'm scope-creeping this thread a little, but I think anyone who asks the initial question will want to know these details too.So, I’m working on a course for KelbyOne, which would be a special version of my ‘SLIM’ system (my Simplified Lightroom Image Management system) just for folks using the ‘cloud’ version of Lightroom.

Ultimately, my goal is to migrate all of my photos from Google Photos to Adobe Lightroom CC and eliminate the Google storage charge I am paying each month. Adding all of my photos to one collection seems clunky and organizing 30K+ photos into regular collections seems too time-consuming. It is only available for regular collections (and slide shows?). I tried using a smart collection to do it- all photos dated 2015, for example-but the sync option is not available for smart collections. It appears that my photos I have in Lightroom Classic CC have to be added to a 'Collection' before they can be sync'd to Lightroom CC. In Lightroom Classic CC I imported the Google Photos folder, leaving the photos in their current location. I have Google Drive on my Mac and have set it to sync the contents of my Google Photos account (~150 GB) down to my Mac.

I can confirm this works pretty flawlessly with Lightroom Classic CC, but I'm still not completely sure how to sync to Lightroom CC.

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