Mobile Downloads.lrdata file huge even after moving all files to a local folder in LR

Question

I have approx 36K photos which are all in Lightroom classic on a local drive and synced via a collection into the cloud & lightroom mobile.

My workflow is mainly importing directly in LR classic , but as well shooting on the mobile or import into mobile.

After sync back to lightroom classic I “move” the files inside lightroom from the syc to mobile folder into a folder on the local disk and as well delete the photos in “synced photos” to remove the original from the cloud.

After that I sync the collection to have a access to the file via cloud.

with this workflow (have all originals local , and sync all photos into the cloud) I wonder why I have these 2 very big files:

bhirsch LR 11-v13-3 Sync.lrdata with 10GB (should be my cloud sync file for the 36K photos ? )
Mobile Downloads.lrdata with 5GB ( should be the file for all originals from the cloud)

But as I move all files imported via could after showing up in LR classic to a local folder .. why is Mobile Downloads.lrdata still so big with 5GB …???

Many thanks

BjoernHirsch · Answer

it does not look like a glitch when I click on "info" in finder it shows the size below with a strange ceration date (rather recent even if I use LR for years and only modified few days after creation ???

plus when I double click on the file it opens a lightroom import dialogue for 1815 photos (a strange selection from my photos) which I believe are all already in LR ????

General:
Kind: Adobe Lightroom Data
Size: 4 939 822908 bytes (4,94 GB
on disk
Where: Macintosh HD • Users •
bjoernhirsch • Pictures •
Lightroom
Created: Monday 10 June 2024 at 21:10
Modified: Thursday 13 June 2024 at 07:43

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