{"id":47217,"date":"2022-04-16T18:47:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/lightroom\/frequent-question-where-does-lightroom-classic-store-photos\/"},"modified":"2022-04-16T18:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T18:47:47","slug":"frequent-question-where-does-lightroom-classic-store-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/lightroom\/frequent-question-where-does-lightroom-classic-store-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequent question: Where does lightroom classic store photos ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Windows: Users[user name]Pictures<strong>Lightroom<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>macOS: \/Users\/[user name]\/Pictures\/Lightroom.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n<p>Quick Answer, does Lightroom <strong>Classic<\/strong> store photos locally? You&#8217;ll probably <strong>store<\/strong> it on your computer&#8217;s hard drive or an external disk. After you decide where you&#8217;ll save the catalog, consider the specific folder or path where you&#8217;ll put it. Determine where you want to keep your photos.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, how do I change storage location in <strong>Lightroom<\/strong> Classic? <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Step 1: Locate And Access Your Lightroom Catalog. Before you can move a Lightroom catalog, you need to find it.  <\/li>\n<li>Step 2: Select Your Catalog And Move It To A New Location.  <\/li>\n<li>Step 3: Open The Catalog From It&#8217;s New Location.  <\/li>\n<li>Step 4: Confirm It&#8217;s New Location.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Furthermore, where are photos located in <strong>Lightroom<\/strong>? <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>(Optional) In the Library module, choose Library > Find All Missing <strong>Photos<\/strong> to display missing files in the Grid view.<\/li>\n<li>Click the Photo Is Missing icon ( or ) in a thumbnail cell in the Grid view.  <\/li>\n<li>Click the Locate button, navigate to where the photo is currently located, and then click Select.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You asked, how do I change where Lightroom stores my <strong>photos<\/strong>? Specify where Lightroom stores your Originals. To change the default location or change the current custom location, click Browse, choose a folder in the (Mac) file picker window\/ (Win) Select New Storage Location dialog. The new location is now displayed in the Local Storage preferences.What are the differences between Lightroom and <strong>Lightroom<\/strong> <strong>Classic<\/strong>? Lightroom is the new cloud-based photo service that works across desktop, mobile, and web. Lightroom Classic is the desktop-focused digital photography product.<\/p>\n<h2>How do I move photos in Lightroom Classic?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Drag the photo or photos to the destination folder in the Folders panel: Drag from the center of the thumbnail, not from the edge. Note: You cannot copy photos in Lightroom Classic. The photos are moved to the destination folder in Lightroom Classic as well as on the hard drive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Where should I store my Lightroom catalog?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>The ideal approach is to put Lightroom and its catalog in the Pictures folder on your computer, no matter where you store the image files. (I find, however, it&#8217;s useful to store the primary copy of the catalog and the image files in the same folder location.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I move my Lightroom Classic catalog?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Locate the folder that contains the catalog and preview files.  <\/li>\n<li>In the Information area of the General panel, click Show to go to the catalog in the Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac OS).<\/li>\n<li>Quit Lightroom Classic.<\/li>\n<li>In the Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac OS), copy or move the catalog.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Why can&#8217;t I find my photos in Lightroom?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Missing photos can happen as a result of unplugging an external drive that was the source for the photos or if the drive mount point (Mac) or the drive letter (Windows) has changed. For these issues the solution is simple \u2013 plug the external hard drive back in and\/or switch back to the drive letter Lightroom expects.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I find missing photos in Lightroom Classic?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_oQMNy0PVE0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Where are all my Pictures?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>On your Android phone or tablet, open Google Photos . At the bottom, tap Library Find the folder under Photos on device. If available, open your device folders to find your missing item. If you want your device folder items to appear in your Photos tab, you can back them up automatically.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Where does Lightroom mobile store photos?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lightroom mobile uploads them to Adobe Cloud when you go online, and when you open Lightroom CC it downloads them and saves them on your computer. This works with JPEG, PNG and video files but not Raw files.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Does Lightroom store photos in the cloud?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Any photo that is captured with or imported into any of the Lightroom CC apps (Mac, Win, iOS, or Android) are uploaded at full resolution to the cloud. This is the beauty of the Lightroom CC ecosystem which means all your photos are stored in the cloud and accessible from any device.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Is Lightroom Classic going away?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Adobe says it has no plans to stop publishing Lightroom Classic, but you have to wonder. For the purposes of this article I&#8217;m still going to call them Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic to try to keep the distinction clear.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>What is Lightroom Classic used for?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rs3R9PnpGY0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I access Lightroom Classic?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Open the Creative Cloud app and go to the Apps tab. Below you&#8217;ll see a list of available Adobe apps. Look for Lightroom Classic. If you haven&#8217;t installed it yet you&#8217;ll see a blue Install button.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I backup my Lightroom photos?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Choose Edit > Catalog Settings (Windows) or Lightroom Classic > Catalog Settings (Mac OS).<\/li>\n<li>Choose Back Up Catalog > When Lightroom Next Exits.<\/li>\n<li>Close the window and then quit Lightroom Classic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I permanently delete photos in Lightroom Classic?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;ve flagged (rejected) all the images you want to delete, hit Command + Delete (Ctrl + Backspace on a PC) on your keyboard. This opens a pop-up window where you can choose to either delete all rejected photos from Lightroom (Remove) or the hard drive (Delete from Disk).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I move photos from Lightroom to another drive?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>From the Folders panel, click on a folder that you want to put on the external drive and drag it from your internal drive to the new folder you just created. Click the Move button and Lightroom transfers everything over to the external drive, with no extra effort required on your part.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Where are Lightroom library stored?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>By default, Lightroom places its Catalogs in My Pictures folder (Windows). To find them, go to C:Users[USER NAME]My PicturesLightroom. If you&#8217;re a Mac user, Lightroom will place its default Catalog in [USER NAME]PicturesLightroom folder.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Is Lightroom a good place to store photos?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>No one likes getting lost among files and folders, especially when they&#8217;re spread across multiple drives and devices. Lightroom is a photo organizer that helps resolve those redundancies by allowing you to save your images in one secure location with no risk of hardware failure.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Can Lightroom catalog be on external drive?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>More Detail: The Lightroom Classic catalog can be stored on an external hard drive, as long as that drive has excellent performance. If the external hard drive isn&#8217;t fast, overall performance within Lightroom can suffer significantly when the catalog is on an external drive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Will deleting photos from Lightroom delete them from my phone?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>1 Correct answer. Yes deleting from the mobile app will delete them everywhere in the CC ecosystem, so also from lightroom.adobe.com and on any desktop installations of Lightroom CC. It will not delete them from the camera roll when you delete from the mobile app as again those are separate entities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I recover lost photos in Lightroom?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the Deleted album (see View deleted photos to access this).<\/li>\n<li>Select the photos that you want to restore.<\/li>\n<li>Click the Restore icon .  <\/li>\n<li>(Optional) If you want to restore all the photos in the Deleted album, click the three-dots icon in the upper-right corner of the screen and select Restore All.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Where do permanently deleted photos go?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Deleted files go to the Recycle Bin, which is a special folder on your computer where deleted files are stored until you empty the Recycle Bin. When you delete a file, Windows moves it from its original location to the Recycle Bin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows: Users[user name]PicturesLightroom. macOS: \/Users\/[user name]\/Pictures\/Lightroom. Quick Answer, does Lightroom Classic store photos locally? You&#8217;ll probably store it on your computer&#8217;s hard drive or an external disk. After you decide where you&#8217;ll save the catalog, consider the specific folder or path where you&#8217;ll put it. Determine where you want to keep your photos. 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