{"id":4949,"date":"2021-10-10T18:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/2021\/10\/10\/where-to-store-lightroom-catalog\/"},"modified":"2021-11-07T20:31:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T20:31:57","slug":"where-to-store-lightroom-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/lightroom\/where-to-store-lightroom-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Question: Where to store lightroom catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"
By default, Lightroom places its Catalogs in My Pictures folder (Windows). To find them, go to C:Users[USER NAME]My PicturesLightroom. If you’re a Mac user, Lightroom will place its default Catalog in [USER NAME]PicturesLightroom<\/strong> folder.<\/p>\n Quick Answer, where should you keep your Lightroom<\/strong> catalog?<\/p>\n Moreover, can Lightroom catalog be on external drive? More Detail: The Lightroom<\/strong> Classic catalog<\/strong> can be stored on an external hard drive, as long as that drive has excellent performance. If the external hard drive isn’t fast, overall performance within Lightroom<\/strong> can suffer significantly when the catalog is on an external drive.<\/p>\n You asked, how do I change my Lightroom<\/strong> catalog<\/strong> location?<\/p>\n Also the question is, do you need to keep old Lightroom catalogs? So\u2026the answer would be that once you’ve upgraded to Lightroom 5 and you’re happy with everything, yes, you could go ahead and delete the older catalogs. Unless you plan on reverting back to Lightroom 4, you’ll never use it. And since Lightroom 5 made a copy of the catalog<\/strong>, it’ll never use it again either.Although you can have multiple Lightroom Classic catalogs, try to work with just one. There’s no upper limit to the number of photos you can have in a catalog, and Lightroom Classic offers myriad ways to sort, filter, and otherwise organize and find photos within a catalog.<\/p>\n The Catalog is where all the information about images imported into Lightroom lives. Folders are where the image files live. Folders are not saved inside of Lightroom, but are stored somewhere on an internal or external hard drive.<\/p>\n To delete a backup, locate the backup folder and identify the backup folders to delete and go ahead and delete them. You will find your catalog backups, if you didn’t change the default location for them, in a folder called Backups inside your Lightroom catalog folder. … Do you delete excess backups regularly.<\/p>\n Deleting a catalog erases all the work you’ve done in Lightroom Classic that isn’t saved in the photo files. While the previews are deleted, the original photos being linked to are not deleted.<\/p>\n I get this questions more than you might think, and it’s actually an easy answer: It’s because we’re using different versions of Lightroom, but both of them are current, up-to-date versions of Lightroom. Both share many of the same features, and the main difference between the two is how your images are stored.<\/p>\n One Catalog Makes It Easier To Find Images Quickly Keywording your photos is probably the best way to organize your photos. The biggest benefit to keywording is that a single photo can fit multiple keywords. And when you use keywords well, having one catalog allows you to make the best possible use of keywords.<\/p>\n The primary difference to understand is that Lightroom Classic is a desktop based application and Lightroom (old name: Lightroom CC) is an integrated cloud based application suite. Lightroom is available on mobile, desktop and as a web-based version. Lightroom stores your images in the cloud.<\/p>\n Storage and Sharing: Although Lightroom catalog files don’t contain the actual images they’re referencing, over time they can become relatively large files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By default, Lightroom places its Catalogs in My Pictures folder (Windows). To find them, go to C:Users[USER NAME]My PicturesLightroom. If you’re a Mac user, Lightroom will place its default Catalog in [USER NAME]PicturesLightroom folder. Quick Answer, where should you keep your Lightroom catalog? 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What is the difference between a catalog and a folder in Lightroom?<\/h2>\n
How do I save my Lightroom catalog to an external hard drive?<\/h2>\n
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Can I delete old Lightroom catalog backups?<\/h2>\n
What happens if I delete Lightroom catalog?<\/h2>\n
How do I move photos from one Lightroom catalog to another?<\/h2>\n
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Why does my Lightroom layout look different?<\/h2>\n
Why do I have multiple Lightroom catalogs?<\/h2>\n
How do I free up space on Lightroom catalog?<\/h2>\n
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What is the difference between Lightroom and Lightroom Classic?<\/h2>\n
Can a Lightroom catalog get too big?<\/h2>\n