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phototocanvaspdx
phototocanvaspdx
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December 20, 2018
Question

Smart preview file won't shrink

  • December 20, 2018
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So my smart preview file and regular preview file are insanely huge. I deleted all 1:1 previews and deleted 40,000 smart previews and the file size didn't change. Any ideas?

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phototocanvaspdx
phototocanvaspdxAuthor
Known Participant
December 20, 2018

Can someone please advise on dealing with the Smart Preview folder?! Not the workflow?

Adobe?

So glad I pay a monthly fee and can't even get customer support.

GoldingD
GoldingD
Legend
December 20, 2018

This is a forum, a meeting place for individuals to communicate and share information. This is =not a support page. Members are customers, not Adobe employees.

phototocanvaspdx
phototocanvaspdxAuthor
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December 21, 2018

Im aware, I apologize, I didn't mean to sound ungrateful for peoples input, I am incredibly grateful. I am really frustrated, and the topic veered off to why I am using smart previews. While I am incredibly grateful for members support and help, I am very upset with Adobe that I pay a monthly subscription fee and the support they offer is asking me to ask other customers for help.

GoldingD
GoldingD
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December 20, 2018

If you shut Lightroom down, wait a few, then restart it, does it still report the same?

phototocanvaspdx
phototocanvaspdxAuthor
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December 20, 2018

Thanks David. Sorry about the confusion, I've seen it listed as a folder before, but as the icon isn't a folder it slipped the brain:)

I have reset Lightroom. I haven't restarted my computer which I will do now. I've seen a couple other people posting about this but the only answer anyone has gotten was to remove the regular preview folder. If I trash the smart preview folder, will they auto rebuild to 11gb?

I also have easy access to the files I want smart previews for in one collection. So worst case in my mind is I trash the smart preview file, then select all in that collection and rebuild.

phototocanvaspdx
phototocanvaspdxAuthor
Known Participant
December 20, 2018

Within Lightroom itself, in the file handling section of catalog settings, it says I have 11gb of smart previews. Yet the corresponding smart preview file is 55gb.

GoldingD
GoldingD
Legend
December 20, 2018

That probably refers to the RAW file, not to any of the actual Smart Preview files.

J
Community Expert
Jao vdLCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 22, 2018

Good to know, but if I send a raw file to photoshop, then reimport it as a TIFF to a collection in Lightroom classic, it is not accessible on LR Mobile until I manually create a smart preview. Not sure why just how it is.


jdecker1978  wrote

Good to know, but if I send a raw file to photoshop, then reimport it as a TIFF to a collection in Lightroom classic, it is not accessible on LR Mobile until I manually create a smart preview. Not sure why just how it is.

That is not how it works for me. I NEVER create smart previews in Classic. I just add images to a synced collection. They appear in Lightroom CC as smart previews regardless of whether they are edited tiffs or raw originals. You should never have to manually create smart previews.

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