How to sort images by file size in Lightroom?

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February 28, 2021
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In Lightroom CC, I keep being prompted that I'm almost out of storage space. To fix this, I want to sort my library by file size so I can delete the largest files. Can anyone help me figure out how to sort my library by file size?

Thanks.

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daniels46548219

Participating Frequently

The fact this isn't a feature is baffling given the amount of useless filters that are implemented instead. This shows to me Lightroom isn't developed by people who are using the app themselves. Otherwise you would find yourself in the same situation

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daniels46548219

Participating Frequently

And guess what there is no API access either otherwise this would be very easy to code up

cryanhornerAuthor

Known Participant

it has been 3 years and still this extremely basic funciton is not available. can we please get this added?

when space is running low for cloud storage, the obvious move is to sort by size and remove the largest files that are taking up the most storage, but that is not possible currently, and it's hard not to cynically assume that you're doing this on purpose to make it as hard as possible to work with, to force people to buy more storage space instead of cleaning it out.

Sameer K

Community Manager

Hey there! I'll help you figure this out in a different way.

While we currently don't have the option to sort by size. You can free up space on the Cloud using the new Archiving option available in Lightroom Desktop: https://adobe.ly/3wKlSZS

Let me know if this helps. Thanks!
Sameer K

cryanhornerAuthor

Known Participant

Hi Sameer,

I appreciate the effort to help, but if I can't sort by size, then it wouldn't do anything to help me know which files were taking up the most space, so I wouldn't know what files to archive.

Additionally, most of these files already live locally on my drive because that's where they were originally produced (typically in photoshop, I add them to lightroom / cloud storage for the sake of accessing them remotely), but don't really need to save them back to the drive because that would just create a duplicate.

Removing them from the cloud storage would be sufficient, but when you have ~16,000 image files currently showing under "all photos", finding and removing specific files by searchable (or at least sortable) criteria, like file size, would be the sensible solution.

Is there an intentional reason that this function has been omitted for so long?

JP Hess

Inspiring

There is Lightroom Classic, and there is Lightroom. There is no Lightroom "CC" anymore, so I assume you are referring to Lightroom. There isn't an option to sort images by file size in Lightroom OR Lightroom Classic.

cryanhornerAuthor

Known Participant

I was talking about the online version, so i guess that is just Lightroom
now. Why no option to sort by file size? Will this ever be added? Seems
like pretty basic functionality. Thanks for any info.