Outerbank10
Member
- Joined
- Aug 31, 2018
- Messages
- 65
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- 6.x
- Lightroom Version Number
- LR 6.14
- Operating System
- Windows 7
I am new to LR. While my understanding of how to import photos and how they can be edited is adequate for my purposes, I am at a loss comprehending the various sub-folders that appear within the Lightroom primary folder. To begin, the OS in use is Win 7 Pro. A numerous on line videos have been viewed to advanced the understanding of the file management system. However, they all appear to be Mac OS systems, which exhibit visually different files/folders than what I see on my Win 7 OS. For example, I see two folders named LR Catalog Preview. lrdata and LR Catalog Smart Previews. lrdata. Opening LR Catalog Preview.lrdata shows 10 folders - 0 thru 9 and 6 folders - A thru F. What are these folders and how are they used by LR? Opening LR Catalog Smart Previews.lrdata also show identical folders previously described. It is my understanding that these two folders, LR Catalog Previews.lrdata and LR Catalog Smart Previews.lrdata can be safely deleted. If there are members on this forum that use LR with a Win OS and would be willing to show an example of how their LR catalog appears, it would be quite helpful.