How do I Stop Lightroom classic storing photos on laptop hard drive

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Hi. I have just upgraded from Lightroom to Lightroom Classic. Photos back up to the cloud. I have found that while syncing photos from Lightroom to Classic it has also stored photos on my laptop C drive.

This is now full and causing major problems.

How do I stop Classic saving images to the C drive and how do I move the ones there already to an external hard drive. I need help! Thank you. 

[F. McLion · Accepted solution]

It's fully on your decision and configurable where LrC stores images. 

Open the preferences and set the path where imports via cloud will go. Please note that this does NOT move the photos already imported. And DO NOT move them in Explorer, do it in LrC to have the catalog updated. If you move outside LrC, you need to update/re-link the location in LrC.

[richardplondon · Accepted solution]

For future syncing, you can set (and change) the storage location in LR Classic Preferences, Lightroom Sync tab, Location section (in my own case, D is a second drive within the computer):

So far as the images already synced, I have no practical experience with changing storage locations of those myself. Lightroom and LR Classic are not the same in a number of ways, and spreading the same images across both systems seems to me like a bad idea or at least some cause for frustration. For example in LR Classic one may have used folders to some extent in one's organisation, and that will not apply in Lightroom. Worse, one may apply keywording in one or the other context - and that does not then seamlessly transfer between. Things should of course be seamless between the desktop app of Lightroom, and the web app of Lightroom, which are two faces of the same system.