LRC Backups.

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May 5, 2024
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I am using LrC 13.2 with Mac OS Sonoma 14.4.1

My backup folder for LrC is 541 GB. Can you tell me what I can remove from this folder to reduce it's size in order to free up space on my hard drive?

As you can see there are some 1,215 backups.

I'm trying to learn about how Backups of the Catalog work and I would appreciate some help in determing what can be gotten rid of.

Thank you in advance for any help with this.

Firislander.

macOS

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KR Seals

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Every so often, I will delete the zipped backups in the backup folder except for the last three or four. The way do determing this is to sort the backups by date, newest first.

It looks to me like your backup folder is in the same master folder with your other Lightroom Classic files, including the catalog. This is a very risky situation. If that drive fails, you will loose your catalog and all the backups. To avoid that, get an external drive or two for the backups and your photo files. If you already have external drive(s), when you quit Lightroom Classic, there is a place to designate one of the external drives as the location for the backups.

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FirislanderAuthor

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I do have my backup folder in the same master folder with my other LrC files, including the catalog on my internal drive. I guess this is the way it was set up when I started using Lr almost a couple of decades ago. As I stated I am trying to free up space on my internal drive. Your concern about a failed drive is one of the reasons I have moved most of my photo files to an external drive (with backup copies on 2 separate external drives) and use Backblaze to backup my photo files on my internal drive as well as the 3 external drives. As well my catalog and other LrC files are backed up to Backblaze as well.

So, and this is what I was wondering about, you're saying that I can remove all but the 3 or 4 most recent backups and I will be good to go, yes?

D Fosse

Community Expert

I tried "Choose a Different Catalog" and it did not work when I navigated to the location on T7 which has my last backup?

If anyone can help me figure out what has gone wrong here I would really appreciate the help. I attempted to do everything it was suggested I do and now I cannot, yet, open Lightroom.

Thank you again for any help anyone can offer because I am now dead in the water and do not know what to do.

Firislander.

Just find the current catalog file (.lrcat) in Explorer/Finder, wherever it is.

Double-click to open it.

Once Lightroom is open, set the default in catalog settings to "use this catalog".

Then LrC will continue to open this catalog when you launch it.

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