Charles Lo
Member
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2018
- Messages
- 62
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Cloud Service
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version: 7.5 [ 1186149 ]
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Hi all
I'm very much an amateur and casual user of LR Classic on a Win 10 lap-top. I only shoot in jpg format. I have a collection of approx 40,000 photos. I started using LR Classic about 2 years ago. My Lightroom Catalog is named Catalog-2.
My problem is that my hard disc is being swamped with previews and smart previews. In LR folder there are very large two sub-folders with enormous numbers of files:
Lightroom Catalog-2 Previews.lrdata with 47 Gb and 53,000 files
Lightroom Catalog-2 Smart Previews.lrdata with 26 Gb data and 36,000 files
As you can see I have a greater number of smart previews + previews than photos! I suspect that I've switched on advanced options which are creating previews & smart previews. Two questions:
1. How do I change settings to minimize/switch off previews / smart previews?
2. How do I safely delete the unwanted previews & smart previews?
Thank you
I'm very much an amateur and casual user of LR Classic on a Win 10 lap-top. I only shoot in jpg format. I have a collection of approx 40,000 photos. I started using LR Classic about 2 years ago. My Lightroom Catalog is named Catalog-2.
My problem is that my hard disc is being swamped with previews and smart previews. In LR folder there are very large two sub-folders with enormous numbers of files:
Lightroom Catalog-2 Previews.lrdata with 47 Gb and 53,000 files
Lightroom Catalog-2 Smart Previews.lrdata with 26 Gb data and 36,000 files
As you can see I have a greater number of smart previews + previews than photos! I suspect that I've switched on advanced options which are creating previews & smart previews. Two questions:
1. How do I change settings to minimize/switch off previews / smart previews?
2. How do I safely delete the unwanted previews & smart previews?
Thank you