Lightroom taking up too much space on my mac

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
December 27, 2020
1 reply
169 views

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

This topic has been closed for replies.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

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

S

Samantha5C7CAuthor

Participant

Lovely thank you.

Here goes nothing

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded