Hoggy
Never take life, or anything in it, too seriously.
Exact Lightroom Version: Classic 7.01
It's likely that the new catalog version hasn't been used by many extensively as of yet, so this may still be an unknown. Of course, I also realize the limited usefulness of keeping edit histories - but this is a little more towards hypothetical/academic. (Although it could mean that I might be more likely to keep a few more 'useful' edit histories on some images than in pre-7.0 versions.)
As many may have noticed, their LR catalog pre-7.0 has been reduced quite a bit, post-7.0. Mine is over half reduced - from ~1.2GB to ~512MB unzipped.
I also have been recompressing the zip backups to 7zip-Zstandard codec, level 17. Pre-7.0, they would recompress from a ~280MB (IIRC?) zip file to an ~86MB 7zip file. Post-7.0, they recompress from a ~260MB zip file to a ~154MB 7zip file. So it seems as if 7.0 might be writing compressed data directly into the catalog file, leading to poorer recompression to 7zip-Zstandard-level17. Of course, that's just a guess as to what might be happening in order to explain those findings (therefore I'm open to other possible reasons to explain that, btw).
Sooooo.. Has anyone done any testing to see if keeping long edit histories bloats the catalog as much as pre-7.0 edit histories did? Or otherwise have any 'direct' knowledge if they should bloat it less now, post-7.0?
It's likely that the new catalog version hasn't been used by many extensively as of yet, so this may still be an unknown. Of course, I also realize the limited usefulness of keeping edit histories - but this is a little more towards hypothetical/academic. (Although it could mean that I might be more likely to keep a few more 'useful' edit histories on some images than in pre-7.0 versions.)
As many may have noticed, their LR catalog pre-7.0 has been reduced quite a bit, post-7.0. Mine is over half reduced - from ~1.2GB to ~512MB unzipped.
I also have been recompressing the zip backups to 7zip-Zstandard codec, level 17. Pre-7.0, they would recompress from a ~280MB (IIRC?) zip file to an ~86MB 7zip file. Post-7.0, they recompress from a ~260MB zip file to a ~154MB 7zip file. So it seems as if 7.0 might be writing compressed data directly into the catalog file, leading to poorer recompression to 7zip-Zstandard-level17. Of course, that's just a guess as to what might be happening in order to explain those findings (therefore I'm open to other possible reasons to explain that, btw).
Sooooo.. Has anyone done any testing to see if keeping long edit histories bloats the catalog as much as pre-7.0 edit histories did? Or otherwise have any 'direct' knowledge if they should bloat it less now, post-7.0?