How to save space using both Lightroom CC and classic ?

Question

I've finally taken the plunge and decided to upgrade my Lightroom 6 installation to Lightroom classic + Lightroom CC.

Right now I don't have lot of disk space left so I tried the migration for a small catalog of about 500 RAW pictures. The upload to the cloud though CC went well and my catalog and RAW files are now completely backed up. On the Lightroom classic side I now have a sync icon (double headed arrow) for all those 500 pics. However, it seems that I still have the RAW files on my computer, in the Lightroom classic catalog.

Those pics are old and I'm not interested in having their RAW files stored on my computer. How can I remove those RAW files without also deleting them in the cloud ?
In my new workflow I'm thinking about uploading every pics to CC but keepinp the RAW files on my computer only for the pics I still want to work on with Lightroom classic. This would help me save a lot of hard drive space.

I couldn't find, or didn't know how to search for, the answer on the support database. Any idea from the community ?

Thanks in advance.

JohanElzenga · Accepted Answer

Yes, sorry, that's what I meant. I was thinking of uploading the RAW files to the cloud with Lightroom CC, which would sync them up in Lightroom Classic. But then I could remove the physical RAW files from the Lightroom Classic directory on my hard drive without removing the photos from the catalog. They would appear as missing but that's not a pb since the RAW files are backed-up in the Lightroom CC cloud. Would that work ?

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Yes, sorry, that's what I meant. I was thinking of uploading the RAW files to the cloud with Lightroom CC, which would sync them up in Lightroom Classic. But then I could remove the physical RAW files from the Lightroom Classic directory on my hard drive without removing the photos from the catalog. They would appear as missing but that's not a pb since the RAW files are backed-up in the Lightroom CC cloud. Would that work ?

Yes, that would work.

JohanElzenga · Answer

ppericard wroteI've finally taken the plunge and decided to upgrade my Lightroom 6 installation to Lightroom classic + Lightroom CC.Right now I don't have lot of disk space left so I tried the migration for a small catalog of about 500 RAW pictures. The upload to the cloud though CC went well and my catalog and RAW files are now completely backed up. On the Lightroom classic side I now have a sync icon (double headed arrow) for all those 500 pics. However, it seems that I still have the RAW files on my computer, in the Lightroom classic catalog.Those pics are old and I'm not interested in having their RAW files stored on my computer. How can I remove those RAW files without also deleting them in the cloud ?In my new workflow I'm thinking about uploading every pics to CC but keepinp the RAW files on my computer only for the pics I still want to work on with Lightroom classic. This would help me save a lot of hard drive space. You can't remove the raw images completely, they will have to remain in the Lightroom Classic catalog, or else they will be deleted from the cloud as well. However, nobody says that the images need to be on the internal disk of your computer. Lightroom Classic can also keep track of them if you move them to an external disk, and the external disk doesn't have to be online all the time for the cloud versions to remain in the cloud. So that would be the solution: keep the images in the catalog, but move the originals to an 'archive external disk'.

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