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PickledRamps
PickledRamps
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April 28, 2020
Question

Remove Originals After Lightroom CC Migration

  • April 28, 2020
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I have successfully migrated from LR Classic to LR CC. In that Process LR CC creates a copy of all orginals which I understood would eventually be removed. They still remain after 6 weeks. 

 

There are originals that are used by LR Classic which I am keeping. This is NOT what I am refernecing. I am referring to the "originals" that are CREATED by LR during the migration process, in addition to those thart were already in existence used by Classic.

 

I understood that LR CC would eventually remove those created originals, and that I could attempt to force the issue by reducing cach to 0% in Adobe Lightroom>Preference>Local Storage, which I did without results.

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J
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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 6, 2020

The deletion of these files is often really slow and sometimes never happens. However, you can force their deletion. Check the cloud sync status in Lightroom Cloudy by clicking on the cloud icon. Does it say "synced and backed up"? Check if this is indeed true by going to https://lightroom.adobe.com in a browser. Do you see all your images? If both of these are true, you can now force the originals to be deleted by deleting your Lightroom library from your hard drive. You do this by dragging the Lightroom Library.lrlibrary in your pictures folder to the trash or recycle bin. Then when you restart Lightroom Cloudy, it will redownload a copy of the library and download images when needed. You can then empty your trash or recycle bin to get rid of them.

Jim Wilde
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Jim WildeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 6, 2020

Jao, that's fine if the originals are still being stored in the default location within the Lightroom Library.lrlibrary package. But it will have no effect if the originals are stored in a different location. In which case it's better to leave the Lightroom library alone and instead delete the originals folder.

J
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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 6, 2020

True but originals after a migration are always stored in the library on the startup disk. You can't move those except for some hardcore hackery. You are right if you are talking about originals that are imported in Lightroom Cloudy and the location for originals has been moved in preferences.

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DanBigMacMeal
Participant
September 6, 2020

I'm having the same issue - did they delete eventually themselves? I did see someone say you can manually delete everything in the originals folder so I'm about to try that.

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