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stevev35405672
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March 19, 2017
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Storage space used by pictures

  • March 19, 2017
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Dear,

I found that with the photographer subscription you get 2GB's of storage.

How should I see the usage off this disk space? How many pictures could I have in lightroom for which the content is synced.

If the entire picture size is counted that would be less then 100 and would make the sync option not useable.

Thank you for your help.

Kind regards

Steve

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    Correct answer JP Hess

    There is a topic here that shows how you can see how much space you are using.

    Guess I will just get a trial and try it out.

    I have another question, not sure I should start a new topic of not. But let's say I connect 2 computers with lightroom to a network drive if I edit a picture on one computer would it show on the other or should I do an update folder. I know before cc we had to do this.


    All adjustments  in Lightroom are stored in the catalog, not in the image file itself. And the catalog must be on a local drive. the catalog cannot be on a network drive. So changes made on one computer  will not automatically be shown on the other. Some people try to use Dropbox for their catalog and they  report success.  But you have to make sure  one computer  completely synchronizes the update  before you try to access  the catalog on the other computer. It's very easy to corrupt the catalog. The best way is to  have the catalog and images on an external hard drive that you can switch from one computer to the other.

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    selondon
    Community Expert
    selondonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 20, 2017

    Conrad is correct. The cloud storage that Lightroom uses isn't the same as the Creative Cloud storage.

    I'm just a hobbyist photographer and have been uploading many GBs of high res JPEGs through Lightroom Web (which then Sync back to Lightroom Desktop and Mobile) since Adobe Revel closed last year.

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 19, 2017

    That all depends on the filesize of each image in your Creative Cloud folder.  I use my computer operating system's file manager to view file sizes.

    Nancy

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    stevev35405672
    stevev35405672Author
    Participant
    March 19, 2017

    I only shoot raw on a Canon 5DII that means about 25MB/picture. So if it syncs all the image and not just metadata it is useless for me. I have more then 1,5TB of pictures. Metadata and small jpg to identify the file would be under the 2GB but if it really syncs the complete image it's not useful for photographers only for people snapping pictures with their phones.

    JP Hess
    JP Hess
    Inspiring
    March 19, 2017

    I work with heavy PSD project files from Photoshop.  I DO NOT put them ALL in my Creative Cloud folder.  I'm very selective about what goes there.

    I use my Creative Cloud space to collaborate with colleagues or when I need to sync files and access them from other devices. 

    If I'm putting stuff on Behance or Adobe Portfolio, it's all  optimized for the web beforehand.  So my JPG images are never more than about 100 KB.

    It goes without saying, your CC space is no substitute for bonafide offline backup systems like Backblaze or Dropbox.   It's more of a collaborating tool.

    Nancy


    Lightroom doesn't upload the full-sized PSD or raw or any kind of file. It uploads a reduced size copy of the image. For instance, I just downloaded an image that is synchronized from Lightroom.adobe.com. The original file on my computer is a 24 megapixel raw file. About 27 MB. But the JPEG file that I downloaded from the web was only 900 KB. I don't know of any way of monitoring how much of your mobile space has been used. But it seems that you could synchronize  a good number of images before you approach the 2 GB limit.

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