Internet Data Usage Help! LR Classic

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My Lightroom Classic is using internet data at an alarming rate, 154GB in 30 days. I do not have any type of syncing turned on, I do not use any LR cloud. It should not be connected in any way to the internet. Why is LRc using internet data and how to stop it! It is eating up my internet data limits. Windows 11, LRC 12.5

[shayb68441784 · Accepted solution]

Solved!! I figured out the answer to my own question. I have a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and there are a lot of older photo (and video) files on there. Whenever I view them in Lightroom Classic, the data transfer goes through the router and network, thereby showing up on my data usage meter, Windows PC. It's not actually using any internet though, although Windows evidently does not differentiate when reporting data transfers.