- Joined
- Dec 31, 2019
- Messages
- 33
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version: 10.0 [ 202010011851-ef6045e0 ]
- Operating System
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
I keep my newer photos in subfolders of the Lightroom folder on my laptop, and my older photos (pre-2020) in a Dropbox folder. Lightroom happily works with them all, much as when I once used multiple hard drives to hold photos. However, I used Dropbox "smart sync" and most of the older photos are now cloud-only – Dropbox does not keep a local copy on my laptop. Anticipating this, I told Lightroom to compute Standard Previews and Smart Previews for my entire photo collection. As you know, the previews are stored in the Lightroom folder - and thus on the laptop.
Why, then, when I open a Gallery within that old (Dropbox) folder in Grid view, does it take a long time to show the grid-view preview of the photos in that folder? Because Dropbox is downloading all the photos so Lightroom can compute the grid-view preview. Why is this necessary, if I already have Standard Previews? and, for that matter, Smart Previews? I thought the whole point of the latter is to enable me to work with photos while the underlying disk is offline.
Why, then, when I open a Gallery within that old (Dropbox) folder in Grid view, does it take a long time to show the grid-view preview of the photos in that folder? Because Dropbox is downloading all the photos so Lightroom can compute the grid-view preview. Why is this necessary, if I already have Standard Previews? and, for that matter, Smart Previews? I thought the whole point of the latter is to enable me to work with photos while the underlying disk is offline.