Why I have so many Catalogues?

Question

Hi, think I just put a special setting on Lightroom, but do you know what are all these folder with the date? can I delete them? what Is the big catalog...ws.lrdata?Why is it too big? can I delete?

Basically, I just want the ONLY Lightroom catalogue.lrcat....

Can someone help?

Rob_Cullen · Accepted Answer

what Is the big catalog...ws.lrdata?This is the 'Previews' cache. It contains all the preview thumbnails, etc, that Lightroom needs to display your photos.You can delete this 'Data' file, but Lightroom will just recreate it and re-build the previews slowly! so you may see just grey blank thumbnails until all previews are re-built.There are some menu items to help control the size of the .LRDATA cache, like deleting all 1:1 size previews:

Just Shoot Me · Answer

Dated folders are Backup of the actual Catalog file. By default LR creates a backup every week.

Bad part is LR stores those backups in the same folder as the Working Catalog. you should change that so they are stored on some other Physical drive. Like an External drive.

You can Delete all of the Dated Folders except the most recent 2 or 3.

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