FredHuebsch
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I make a new catalog for each project, usually around 5,000 photos per project.
(I know that some say it is better to have one catalogue for everything, but I prefer this approach.)
I did a clean install (new PC) a while ago, and now the size of my catalog is much larger. I think there is a setting I did not remember when I installed from scratch.
On 26th October 2021 David Gordon started a thread her "LrC 11 catalog isn't smaller".
In it, he writes that his catalog with around 250,000 photos is 2.86 GB.
On 27th October 2021, in response to a person that comments on the small size of his catalog, David Gordon writes "You must be storing your images within your catalogue.".
I have looked for a setting where I can prevent 'storing images within the catalog. So far, no results in LrC itself or searching for an answer.
When I read these numbers by David Gordon, I thought that this might be why my catalog is also much bigger than his catalog.
For around 1800 cr2 (raw) photos with around 600 jpg's from those, my lrcat file is 2.01 GB.
Corrected for the number of photos, this means my catalog is 73 times (!) bigger than it apparently has to be.
For completeness: my lrcat-data folder is 23,1 MB, my Previews.lrdata folder is 2,31 GB and my Helper.lrdata folder is 332 kB.
Can someone please help me what I have apparently overlooked?
Thanks in advance!
(I know that some say it is better to have one catalogue for everything, but I prefer this approach.)
I did a clean install (new PC) a while ago, and now the size of my catalog is much larger. I think there is a setting I did not remember when I installed from scratch.
On 26th October 2021 David Gordon started a thread her "LrC 11 catalog isn't smaller".
In it, he writes that his catalog with around 250,000 photos is 2.86 GB.
On 27th October 2021, in response to a person that comments on the small size of his catalog, David Gordon writes "You must be storing your images within your catalogue.".
I have looked for a setting where I can prevent 'storing images within the catalog. So far, no results in LrC itself or searching for an answer.
When I read these numbers by David Gordon, I thought that this might be why my catalog is also much bigger than his catalog.
For around 1800 cr2 (raw) photos with around 600 jpg's from those, my lrcat file is 2.01 GB.
Corrected for the number of photos, this means my catalog is 73 times (!) bigger than it apparently has to be.
For completeness: my lrcat-data folder is 23,1 MB, my Previews.lrdata folder is 2,31 GB and my Helper.lrdata folder is 332 kB.
Can someone please help me what I have apparently overlooked?
Thanks in advance!