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Lightroom CC migration requires too much disk space

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October 20, 2017
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I've got thousands of photos and raws around 3 drives in my pc. When I try to migrate to LR CC it's asking me 3tb of space to continue, but none of my disks has that amount of space. I can't even combine them because those were my backups...

What exactly is LR CC doing? was that 3tb it's asking for are duplicates of my photos and to be copied locally? Why can't it just reference those files like the old Lightroom?

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Correct answer Victoria Bampton LR Queen

Yes, it moves them into its own space while it uploads them to the cloud.

Just to double check, it is the new cloud-native version 1.0 app that you intended to install? I only ask because lots of people have been accidentally installing that when they actually wanted the latest version of the folder-based Lightroom, which is now called Lightroom Classic.

Blackbus76

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I had similar disk space issues. I worked round the problem by using Smart collections in Classic to break down my Catalog into a number of smaller collections based on date ranges. Then exported these smaller collections as catalogs one at a time and imported to CC using the catalog migration wizard. You can run this migration wizard multiple times for each collection.

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originalmule

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figured it out. I made a copy of my library file before migration and moved saved it to an external hd. I now just copied it back from the external to my hd, and boom 324gb of free space. back to where i was a week ago.

Whatever you do, do not migrate files to CC unless you're planning on just using CC and deleting all the local files you were using in Classic.

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originalmule

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I have local storage set to zero...So nothing should be stored locally.

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originalmule

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Theres zero files in CC, so i don't understand. I only want to use Classic and get my disc space back.

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Jao vdL

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It’s probably the local copy of the files it copied in order to upload them all. It appears Lightroom CC is very sluggish in deleting files it no longer need

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originalmule

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so i deleted everything that i migrated to CC, but i still only have 56gb of space left, before the migration it was about 300gb. I tried finding files regarding CC specifically and cant locate them. I'm tempted to move all files over to my external, delete the lightroom files and start over with bringing each folder back into lightroom classic.

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Jao vdL

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Space on your local disk? If you now open Lightroom CC it should delete all that

Squidy666

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I tried it as well, I have 2 4tb drives but my main drive is a 512gb SSD. It wants to copy all photos (800gb) to the 512gb and giving me the error. What ever happened to "import at current location" and then uploading them?

It seems to mean that people who upgraded to SSD don't have the full functionality available to them?

Also, if I'm using LightroomCC on the go is it going to try to download all files to my Macbook Pro as previews etc? Because that's also going to wipe out my storage

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Jao vdL

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What ever happened to "import at current location" and then uploading them?

For whatever reason they did not implement this in Lightroom CC. You could first set your local storage folder to one of your externals before migrating.

It seems to mean that people who upgraded to SSD don't have the full functionality available to them?

It really is mostly about the size of your original catalog. Most laptops that people use have 512 GB or so as an internal drive nowadays. I also guess that the majority of Lightroom catalogs out there only has a few thousand images in it.

Also, if I'm using LightroomCC on the go is it going to try to download all files to my Macbook Pro as previews etc? Because that's also going to wipe out my storage

It is quite efficient at that stage. There is a setting in Lightroom CC that sets how much of the storage it can maximally use. It will then only download what it needs and throw away from local storage if it no longer needs an image right away.

Victoria Bampton LR Queen

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Yes, it moves them into its own space while it uploads them to the cloud.

Just to double check, it is the new cloud-native version 1.0 app that you intended to install? I only ask because lots of people have been accidentally installing that when they actually wanted the latest version of the folder-based Lightroom, which is now called Lightroom Classic.

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen

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pinoguinAuthor

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But why must it do that... I simply have no space left..

@ cloud native: yes, I want to try both

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Jao vdL

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Lightroom CC migrates catalogs by first copying over all the images to its own local folder and then uploading it to the cloud before then deleting them again from your local machine. It cannot work with referenced files in different locations. Just stating how it is and how Adobe apparently designed it. You can assign a different location for local storage - i.e. an external disk and it will copy everything there first although some people are reporting this not working right. That said, if it wants 3TB of disk space there is no way that that catalog will migrate to Lightroom CC very well even if you had the disk space. The default is that you get 1TB of space on the cloud. You can buy more though but it will cost you. Also that is going to take several weeks to upload to the cloud on typical internet connections. You probably shouldn't migrate your "classic" catalog to try out Lightroom CC.

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