Les T
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Operating System: Mac OS 10.13.1
Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info):
Lightroom Classic version: 7.0.1 [ 1142117 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Operating system: Mac OS 10
Version: 10.13 [1]
Like many others I have been experimenting with Lightroom CC and the syncing with Lightroom Classic.
Could someone point me to an explanation as how disk space is used with Classic when syncing with Lightroom CC.
As I loaded photos into Lightroom CC and albums created I saw new Collections appearing in Lightroom Classic. Showing the sync icon to the left. This looked good and worked OK. Collections are pointers so I thought there would be a small hit on disk usage.
I then noticed in Classic the "All Synced Photographs" count seemed to mirror the contents of Lightroom CC. Again I thought that was OK this number is just a count. I them looked into that list and opened Finder to show where these were stored. Low and behold they are held in a package called "Mobile Downloads.lrdata". My understanding is that I had just duplicated all the Lightroom CC photos on my MacBook.
I obviously don't want this to continue. Is there anyway of removing these copies as well as syncing with Classic?
Additionally I took one collection that was synced and turned off the sync. I was warned that this would remove the album from all devices. Sure enough in Lightroom CC that album was deleted. The photos were still on CC under All Photos.
As a fall back I would like to stop syncing with Lightroom CC but retain what I have in CC.
The Classic Preference setting has a Lightroom CC tab. This has a Delete Data button. What exactly does that delete?
Exact Lightroom Version (Help menu > System Info):
Lightroom Classic version: 7.0.1 [ 1142117 ]
License: Creative Cloud
Operating system: Mac OS 10
Version: 10.13 [1]
Like many others I have been experimenting with Lightroom CC and the syncing with Lightroom Classic.
Could someone point me to an explanation as how disk space is used with Classic when syncing with Lightroom CC.
As I loaded photos into Lightroom CC and albums created I saw new Collections appearing in Lightroom Classic. Showing the sync icon to the left. This looked good and worked OK. Collections are pointers so I thought there would be a small hit on disk usage.
I then noticed in Classic the "All Synced Photographs" count seemed to mirror the contents of Lightroom CC. Again I thought that was OK this number is just a count. I them looked into that list and opened Finder to show where these were stored. Low and behold they are held in a package called "Mobile Downloads.lrdata". My understanding is that I had just duplicated all the Lightroom CC photos on my MacBook.
I obviously don't want this to continue. Is there anyway of removing these copies as well as syncing with Classic?
Additionally I took one collection that was synced and turned off the sync. I was warned that this would remove the album from all devices. Sure enough in Lightroom CC that album was deleted. The photos were still on CC under All Photos.
As a fall back I would like to stop syncing with Lightroom CC but retain what I have in CC.
The Classic Preference setting has a Lightroom CC tab. This has a Delete Data button. What exactly does that delete?