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Hi, when a tick is placed in the 'Store a copy of all smart previews locally on 'Macintosh HD' option under the Preference (Cache) Menu, which folder are the previews stored in on the hard disk drive?
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They are held in Lightroom cache:

Macintosh HD / Users / [username] /Pictures / Lightroom Library.lrlibrary
 
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Oh I see, so the smart previews are not individually accessible as such, they are just bundled up within this 'library' not able to be seen?
So if I 'clear cache' within the Preferences menu, I would be deleting all the smart previews?
And the 'cache size limit' controls only the size of the cache for the smart previews or the originals as well?
 
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