Syncing a collection with dropbox?

[jrm272727]

Hello all,

I've been a LR user for years and I love it. I've been using mobile sync for the past few years for sync collections between my desktop computer and my phone/tablets. I'd love to take a specific collection (not al of my collections), and have it sync it's contents to a Dropbox folder. Is it possible to direct the collection to sync that way? That way whenever I add a new photo to that collection, it will send a jpeg over to a folder in my dropbox that is constantly being updated?  Thanks!

-jon

[JP Hess]

I don't think you can do that because the collection only exists within the catalog. You would have to export the image to the folder that is in the dropbox folder, I think.

[richardplondon · Accepted solution]

http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/collection-publisher

This plugin may help with doing that.

IOW to on demand, replicate as needed up to date JPG representations of the contents of all your LR collections, into the local folder which is managed by DB, so that DB then syncs all new or changed JPGs "up" into your online DB storage and from there, syncs them "down" into other devices as appropriate.

[jrm272727]

awesome. I'll look into that. Thanks!

[john beardsworth]

In Publish Services, create a Hard Drive service with the settings you want. Add a smart collection which includes the synced collection's name as its Source.