ICloud – Syncing photos to iCloud and managing them with Lightroom

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I am a brand new Mac user, having recently purchased an iMac updated to OSX 10.10.3. I also have installed Adobe Lightroom 5, and I have a bunch of photos synced to iCloud and available through the Photos app.

I would like to be able to manage my photos through Lightroom, but have the photos synced through iCloud with my other devices. However, it appears that Lightroom cannot read the "Photos Library.photolibrary" file that is created with the Photos app.

I have seen this other question regarding the iPhoto app and Lightroom. Does this still apply for the Photos app?

What options are available to be able to sync my with my other devices and still be able to manage them on the iMac with Lightroom?

Best Answer

I have a solution:

  1. create a symbolic link to your iCloud folder from the terminal window ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs iCloudDrive
  2. This creates a link from your home folder to your iCloud documents
  3. Now open up Lightroom and you should be able to navigate to the linked folder and import directly from there.
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