On my Macbook I have the Lightroom Desktop "Preferences->Cache->Store a Copy of All Orignals" unset BUT it is still storing my orignals at the selected location - in the .lrlibrary package.
I noticed this as I did a "Show Package Contents" to look at the library contents and found that is was saving orignals in the library. It had in fact a number of orignal files that had long since been deleted. (Note I would not expect them to be deleted if a file was deleted from the cloud).
I then updated the storage location to a fodler in the Pictures folder (I did not change the "Store a Copy of All Orignals" tick box - it remained unset and it immediately moved the saved orignals from .lrlibrary to the new location - but only those for files actually still in the cloud library - ie it deleted those saved origanals that had been deleted.
Why is this happening? Is it a bug? Note on my Mac Studio client I do have "Save Originals Set" as I do want a copy of the original saved - but only once and certainly not on my Macbook.
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