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December 27, 2020
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Lightroom taking up too much space on my mac

  • December 27, 2020
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I have now moved my photos that I edit onto an external hard drive but Lightroom is still taking up over 100gb on my mac; the catalog below taking up over 90gb....

 

Lightroom Catalog-2-v10 Previews

 

Is there a way it can run off icloud or off an external hard drive?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Sam

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JohanElzenga
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Community Expert
December 27, 2020

You can simply trash the previews. Lightroom will rebuild them because it needs previews to show the images in the catalog grid and other views, but it will only rebuild those previews that it needs. In other words, if you do not look at a lot of older images, then Lightroom won't rebuild previews for these files.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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December 28, 2020

Lovely thank you.

 

Here goes nothing