what is taking up space on my hard drive mac

Otherwise all smart Previews you create are stored on your hard drive. The only time Smart Previews are stored on the Adobe Cloud system is when you Sync a collection in LR Classic to the Web/Mobile system. The Above reply by Johan Elzenga is correct in some points and incorrect in others. Copy and paste the first 8 lines of text that comes up in the Sys info dialog window to a reply. In LR go to the Help menu and select System Info. Please clarify which version of LR you are using. No Smart Previews are stored on your computers hard drive, that is for Lightroom Classic. Not even 40-50-60 MP cameras create files of that size. What camera records image files of 270MBs?

I followed a YouTube video on using more than one compute and the way I understand it is the smart previews are stored on the Adobe cloud so that as long as you select that catalog on any computer you will see the smart preview. No Adobe software uses the Apple cloud system.Įach of the images are about 270MB.

I have no idea what Apple's iCloud has to do with this as unless you specifically setup iCloud to copy your LR catalog and images. New, other, smart preview are created and uploaded. The only time Smart previews are stored in the Adobe Cloud system is if you Sync collections with the Adobe mobile and web system and even then the smart previews you create on your computer are not used. But even with smart preview for those 300 images should not take up 100 GBs. Smart preview can take up a lot of space as they are, IIRC, reduced in size and compressed DNG files equaling about 1.5MBs each. Smart Previews are stored on you hard drive in a subfolder called CatalogName Smart Previews.lrdata under the same folder the catalog is stored in. If you are using LR Classic, and not Lightroom (the New name for the Cloud Centric version, No CC at the end) then building Smart Previews never get uploaded to the clouds. After importing around 300 images and also creating smart previews my hard drive has dropped to 11 GB and fluctuating between 11 and 12 GB.whats going on? I was under the impression that the smart previews were stored in the cloud not on my hard drive. Before I started importing photos I had 119 GB of free space on my Mac Book Pro. I just started a new lightroom classic catalog and saved it to the creative cloud.

What is taking up space on my hard drive mac