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How not to lose my photos

How not to lose my photos

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How not to lose my photos

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- [Instructor] Now that you understand exactly where your photos are located, let's talk about how to manage your cloud storage without losing your photos. I'm going to start here with Lightroom CC on the computer, but what I explain here will work exactly the same with your Lightroom CC on your mobile device or Lightroom for the web. I'm viewing the All Photos tab here and we see there's 54 images in that ecosystem. If we delete a photo from here it deletes the photo everywhere. I'll do a right-click on this and we'll see the option to Delete Photo and the keyboard shortcut for that on a Mac is Option + Delete, if you're on a Windows machine that would be Alt + Delete. I'll select that and then a warning message comes up and it's a pretty bold warning message. Permanently Delete Photo? Deleting here deletes the photo everywhere. If I select Delete Photo the photo's going to be gone on all of my devices and there is…

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