Remove Originals After Lightroom CC Migration

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April 28, 2020
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I have successfully migrated from LR Classic to LR CC. In that Process LR CC creates a copy of all orginals which I understood would eventually be removed. They still remain after 6 weeks.

There are originals that are used by LR Classic which I am keeping. This is NOT what I am refernecing. I am referring to the "originals" that are CREATED by LR during the migration process, in addition to those thart were already in existence used by Classic.

I understood that LR CC would eventually remove those created originals, and that I could attempt to force the issue by reducing cach to 0% in Adobe Lightroom>Preference>Local Storage, which I did without results.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

The deletion of these files is often really slow and sometimes never happens. However, you can force their deletion. Check the cloud sync status in Lightroom Cloudy by clicking on the cloud icon. Does it say "synced and backed up"? Check if this is indeed true by going to https://lightroom.adobe.com in a browser. Do you see all your images? If both of these are true, you can now force the originals to be deleted by deleting your Lightroom library from your hard drive. You do this by dragging the Lightroom Library.lrlibrary in your pictures folder to the trash or recycle bin. Then when you restart Lightroom Cloudy, it will redownload a copy of the library and download images when needed. You can then empty your trash or recycle bin to get rid of them.

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

Jao, that's fine if the originals are still being stored in the default location within the Lightroom Library.lrlibrary package. But it will have no effect if the originals are stored in a different location. In which case it's better to leave the Lightroom library alone and instead delete the originals folder.

PickledRampsAuthor

Participant

I've never come across or heard of that particular problem, so I can't say if it's been "fixed". All I know is that it has always worked correctly every time I've tested it, including last night.....and I've been frequently migrating with a variety of test catalogs ever since 2017.

I may be incorrect, but it seem as if two slightly different issues are being discussed. The migration process itself CREATES new originals that are meant to be temporary. They are indeed located in the lightroom library, which you can view with "show package contents". (Screenshots)

It has been six months and they have not been deleted. I spoke with Tech Support many times. Most of the reps did not even understand the issue. I finally spoke with a supervisor who escalated the issue to engineering. I heard back that they were working on it.

In the meantime, I havent bothered deleting the files manually because I am okay for now with disc space. Otherwise, couldn't I go to the "Originals" folder within the library and just delete that?

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DanBigMacMeal

Participant

I'm having the same issue - did they delete eventually themselves? I did see someone say you can manually delete everything in the originals folder so I'm about to try that.

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