Catalog Previews.lrdata

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Hi guys,

My understanding is that lightroom does not take up much space, but when I look at the sizes of the Lightroom Catalog Previews.lrdata, and the Lightroom Previews.lrdata files in the my Lightroom folder in the Pictures folder on my Mac they are 18GB and 8GB respectively.
I also have a Lightroom Catalog Previews.lrdata file in a Silvertone folder in the same Pictures folder with 8 GB of space taken.
Is there something I can do to make these much smaller?
 
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Welcome to Lightroom Forums.

You can choose "Discard 1:1 Previews" from the Library/Previews submenu.

Those are the previews databases from three different catalogs. If you aren't working with three separate catalogs, then some of them are probably old catalogs, and you can just delete those entire previews databases (if you ever open those catalogs again, you can just regenerate the previews as needed).
 
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