When I ask a question like this the retired teacher in me always comes out. Did I not pay attention when this was covered in an earlier post? Is it in one of Steve's videos but I didn't really understand it at the time? Was I absent that day? Did my dog eat it? But here goes!!
I am currently running my Windows PC off of a 500GB drive and the available space is shrinking. I don't store any photos or documents on that drive so the previews.lrdata folder is the main storage culprit and it is almost 200GB. The previews.lrdata files contains the basic previews and I don't believe there is a way in LR to delete the basic preview. The 1:1 previews can be deleted but I think the only way to remove basic previews is to delete the previes.lrdata folder. Is it a good practice to delete the previews.lrdata folder and rebuild previews as needed to eliminate folder bloat or is there a better practice? Is there a way in LR to delete basic previews no longer needed.
I am currently running my Windows PC off of a 500GB drive and the available space is shrinking. I don't store any photos or documents on that drive so the previews.lrdata folder is the main storage culprit and it is almost 200GB. The previews.lrdata files contains the basic previews and I don't believe there is a way in LR to delete the basic preview. The 1:1 previews can be deleted but I think the only way to remove basic previews is to delete the previes.lrdata folder. Is it a good practice to delete the previews.lrdata folder and rebuild previews as needed to eliminate folder bloat or is there a better practice? Is there a way in LR to delete basic previews no longer needed.