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Hi,
I am currently on vacation and importing quite a few pictures to Lightroom. I don't have a lot of space left on the hard drive of this laptop, so I set the photo cache size to 10% of available space. According to Lightroom, I have 17.81 GB available. It shows the following:
Required space: 660.04 MB
Photo Cache: 1.72 GB
Store a copy of smart previews: off
Store a copy of originals: off
Now the problem: all photos are synched and backed up. Still: the folder C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Adobe\Lightroom CC\Data\ contains 15.7 GB, most of which (13.2 GB) is in the "originals" folder. Lightroom doesn't count this when calculating the available space (see above), so I actually have very little space available and Lightroom as well as other programs start complaining that the hard drive is full. I have already freed up a few GB by deleting other files, but every time I import photos it gets worse. Why does Lightroom use >13 GB of cache when I only allow it to use 1.7 GB and all photos are synched to the cloud?
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If all you have free on your hard drive is just under 18 GB then your hard drive is essentially full. A hard drive needs to have at least 20% of its total disk space free at all times in order to function properly.
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Thanks, but I already knew that. Do you have an answer to my question also?
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Do you have Lightroom configured to save a local copy of your images?
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No, I don't. That's what I thought at first, but that would be much more ( I think I have around 150 GB of originals in the cloud). I think only the recently added photos remain on the hard disk. But I would expect anything over the set cache size to be deleted as soon as it's synched...?
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Sorry, I'm primarily a LrC user. Keep watching, someone will have an answer for you.
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Ok, thanks anyway.
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Being as you are on vacation, have any of the recently imported photos synced to the Cloud?
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Yes, all of them have.
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Seems like no one has an answer to this? Is it just a bug?
Can I at least just empty the "originals" folder, or will this cause trouble in some way? Note: everything is "synched and backed up"
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The best would be to buy an external drive. Then define that drive as the storage location for your originals. PREFERENCES => LOCAL STORAGE => STORE A COPY OF ALL ORIGINALS => BROWSE
Quit R and restart it. Your originals will be saved to the new external drive