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Storage Question with Lightroom

phebbby
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Jul 23, 2020 Jul 23, 2020

If I add a photo to my Lightroom app, and add that same photo to my synced folder on my desktop, will that take up twice the storage space in my cloud? Or will Adobe automatically recognize it as the same file?

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