Cloud storage quota

[Dave Lynes]

I use Lightroom CC classic and just got into using collections.

Maybe I don't understand things, but I know for a fact the the files that are synced to the cloud far exceed the storage quota of 20gb...20gb doesn't even cover half a shoot, yet Adobe cloud says I'm not even using 1% of my quota.

So my question... What exactly counts towards the storage quota? How is it possible to sync 90gb+ of photos and still not touch my 20gb storage quota? Or should I just keep quiet and consider myself lucky  

[Dave Lynes]

Nope ignore me - I've just built a bunch of smart previews against a 14.5 Gb folder and the smart previews only take up 252mb. Sweet!!!!

[DdeGannes]

I understand what you are saying, I have both LR CC 1.5 and LR Classic CC and I have many collections from Classic synced to the Creative Cloud containing over three thousand image files. I can access them from LR CC 1.5 on my desktop and  also on 4 mobile devices. I have not synced my entire Classic Catalog to LR CC 0n my desktop.

I have very few original image files on LR CC 1.5 and the mobile devices which takes up approximately 1 GB of my storage available.

If LR CC uploaded the 3000 original photos that I had synced it would have been over 40GB which is just not being rejected in my storage usage. My Creative Cloud is showing less than 1 GB of storage used.