Because the images are not changed in any way, Dropbox will have no reason to sync them again after you have edited them in Lightroom. Same for adding keywords, ratings, color labels, etc. The edits are not applied directly onto the image, but are stored as a kind of ‘to do list’ in the Lightroom catalog. When you edit an image in Lightroom, that image is not changed in any way. That folder is constantly synced, but it means that you have a local copy of all times. What kind of Dropbox account do you have? The standard account creates a local Dropbox folder, that contains all the files. Many people use Dropbox to sync their catalog and images between computers. Dropbox and Lightroom work fine together. I find it very hard to understand what the problem really is. Has anyone found a way to get this done without losing the metadata? Most of my photos are missing in the Lightroom Catalog. Basically Adobe support made a mess and has left me without a solution. I do not have room on my computer to transfer my catalog and someone at support tried to help me, would not listen when I said there is not enough room and now everything in Lightroom has disconnected and I am in a desperate situation because they cannot restore it. What I really wanted to do was transfer from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom CC so I could use adobe cloud. In discussion with Adobe Support, my only solution is to download to my computer then Lightroom will have to find them again.( in order to preserve my Lightroom Catalog with all my data including many hours of adding keywords and stars etc, as well as a lot of editing). (each file takes 5-10 minutes to download.) In discussion with Dropbox, my only solution is to download the files to my computer and then upload them to the cloud. I really do not want all the various versions of each photo as separate files. which has slowed down my computer to a crawl. According to Dropbox I have over 327,000 photo files. It seems that Dropbox and Lightroom do not work together, so that each time Dropbox syncs the files, a new file is created. approx 60,000 which many have been edited in Lightroom. I have been using Dropbox for all my photos.
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