{"id":52633,"date":"2022-05-31T18:41:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/faq\/how-to-change-lightroom-backup-location-2\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T18:41:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:41:25","slug":"how-to-change-lightroom-backup-location-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/faq\/how-to-change-lightroom-backup-location-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change lightroom backup location?"},"content":{"rendered":"
How Do I Change the Backup<\/strong> Location in Lightroom<\/strong> Catalog? You can specify the backup<\/strong> location<\/strong> in the Back Up dialog box that pops up when you are exiting Lightroom. Simply click on the >Choose button by >Backup Folder and navigate to the location you’d like to backup the Lightroom catalog to.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Amazingly, how do I change my Lightroom storage location<\/strong>? Choose Edit > Preferences (Win) or Lightroom<\/strong> > Preferences (macOS). In the preferences dialog, choose Local Storage from the menu at the left. In Local Storage preferences, click Browse next to the Storage Location For Originals preference and then choose your network drive’s path.<\/p>\n You asked, where are Lightroom backup files stored? By default, Lightroom Classic saves backed up catalogs to the following locations: Windows: Users[user name]PicturesLightroom<\/strong>[catalog name]Backups Mac OS: \/Users\/[user name]\/Pictures\/Lightroom<\/strong>\/[catalog name]\/Backups<\/p>\n Similarly, how do I change<\/strong> my Lightroom storage to an external hard drive? <\/p>\n Subsequently, how do I move my Lightroom library to another drive? 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<\/strong> transfers everything over to the external drive, with no extra effort required on your part.Yes, you can store and use a Lightroom catalog on most external drives. However, you can only store, but not open, a catalog while it is on a network storage drive or NAS.<\/p>\n Over time, you might end up with multiple copies of your catalog, and many of them might be outdated too. It is completely safe to delete old backups (just keep the last 2-3) to save space on your storage device.<\/p>\n<\/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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The first step is to restore the Lightroom catalog (. lrlibrary) file, from Time Machine (on a Mac) or another backup. By default it’s located in the Pictures folder in your home folder. As a precaution, copy the current (goofed) file to an external drive or elsewhere, just in case, and then restore the backup.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Lightroom Guru Running Lightroom with its catalog on an external SSD is fine, and 500 GB should give you enough room for now. But 1 TB means you’ll never have to worry about the size of the catalog folder. A bus powered SSD should be fine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Step 1: Within Lightroom, locate your Catalog Settings menu. Step 2: From this menu, find the Backup-Catalog option in the General Catalog Settings menu. Step 3: Choose \u201cWhen Lightroom Next Exits\u201d as the frequency. Step 4: Exit Lightroom and wait for the Backup pop up.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n To move a catalog between a Windows computer and a Mac, copy your catalog, . lrcat-data, preview, and image files from the original computer onto an external drive. Then, attach the drive to the second computer and copy the files to the desired location on the second computer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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