Photos/Raw files have taken up all the storage on my laptop

[Amanda36728492et0q]

I have around 3,000 photos on my lightroom CC. I thought they were stored in the cloud but it seems they're taking up nearly all the room on my laptop hardrive. After lots of research, I still cannot fix this issue with the cloud or my external hardrive, and I can't for the life of me find the cache preferences in LR cc on the application or online. And most videos are for lightroom classic specifically and not Lightroom CC. Looking for a way to fix this storage issue since my laptop is nearly completely full.

[JohanElzenga]

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/using/preferences.html

'Lightroom CC' is an old name, no longer in use (even though it is still used by Adobe in URL's...). Search for 'Lightroom desktop' if you want to find information for your version of Lightroom.

[Jao vdL · Accepted solution]

Open Preferences from the Lightroom menu and navigate to the Cache tab and follow instructions below. Hit clear cache if you want to temporarily lower the amount of space used for images that are stored in the cloud anyway. Also make sure you are actually syncing to the cloud (hit the cloud button in the top right of the screen and ensure it is not paused and that it does so "synced and backed up"). Also when buying Apple laptops (or any really), 512 GB SSD is the absolute bare minimum if you deal with lots of images although 3000 is still a very small amount.