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December 12, 2016
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Lightroom Library Size Discrepancy

  • December 12, 2016
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Running LR 2015.8 on a Mac, OS X El Capitan. I'm a fairly light user of LR, and usually when I am done I back up the catalog upon exiting.

This time, when doing that, I got the following message: "Catalog size is more than 4 GB." There was no way to skip the backup at this point, so I started it and quickly canceled.

If I go to Lightroom/Catalog Settings, it says the size is 14.4 MB. When I tried the backup again, after getting the same message, it actually finished the backup quickly, before I tried to cancel it. The size of the backed up catalog is 3.1 MB.

So why is it telling me it's > 4 GB when I initiate a backup?

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    Correct answer Bob Somrak

    It's just a minor glitch/bug.  Just tell the dialog to "don't show again" an continue.  You won't see it again.

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    Bob Somrak
    Bob SomrakCorrect answer
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    December 12, 2016

    It's just a minor glitch/bug.  Just tell the dialog to "don't show again" an continue.  You won't see it again.

    M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
    Adobe Employee
    ChKumar
    Adobe Employee
    December 12, 2016

    Hi John,

    As Robert said, its a bug in calculating the catalog size to show this information. Its harmless otherwise, just select "don't show again" and continue. We would fix it soon.

    Thanks,

    Chandan

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