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Catalogs Keeping backups of old catalogues

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kathie_1

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Lightroom Classic has recently updated again and created a new catalogue - do I need to keep the old ones? It's chewing up a lot of space - I've got it, but the backups take quite a long time because of it. Thoughts? I do regularly remove backup files in the backup folder (keeping the latest three), but it's all these others, particularly the ones I've circled. I back up to two external hard drives but this is on my main computer drive.

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The ones labeled “…2-2-v13-3 is your current master catalog. All of the others including the Previews folder and Helper.lrdata names are removable. I would move them to another folder temporarily until you are satisfied the “…2-2-v13-3 files are complete and all you need. After that you can safely delete them.


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clee01l said:
The ones labeled “…2-2-v13-3 is your current master catalog. All of the others including the Previews folder and Helper.lrdata names are removable. I would move them to another folder temporarily until you are satisfied the “…2-2-v13-3 files are complete and all you need. After that you can safely delete them.


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Thanks, appreciated. They're already backed up to an external hard drive so I'll remove them and if all ok, can just leave as is.
 
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