Use Bittorrent Sync for Lightroom Settings syncing — Frank derFrankie Neulichedl

Use Bittorrent Sync for Lightroom Settings syncing

sync-lightroom I use plenty of sync services - Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Creative Cloud - but all of those have one Problem - you can just sync what is inside one specific folder. But what if you want to keep App Settings in sync between computers?

Adobe is already stepping up and offers settings sync for Photoshop and Illustrator, but Lightroom settings are not available at the moment. So Bittorrent Sync came to mind.

Bittorrent Sync enables you to sync any folder you want to any number of computers - ideal. So what can you sync? Basically everything that is stored in the settings folders of Lightroom. You can find this folders by clicking on "Show Lightroom Presets Folder" which you can find in the Settings.

lightroom_settings

You should not sync the whole folder, but you can sync most of them. I sync these folders:

sync_lightroom

  • Develop Presets
  • Export Actions
  • Export Presets
  • Keyword Sets
  • Local Adjustment Presets
  • Locations
  • Metadata Presets
  • Smart Collection Templates

As you can see I added each folder as separately - so if you have more than one computer and you just share some folders you can do that as well.

How to setup folder sharing in Bittorrent Sync is actually very simple and you can read all about it here: http://help.getsync.com/

With this setup I can be sure that my workflow is in sync between my computers.