How Do I Free Up Space In Lightroom? This Is How I got 196GB Back! Yes Really!!
Well this is one of those things that I never thought that I would miss. But I did. And I want to share this with you in case you have as well, and if not give you some thoughts on how to manage data and keep on top of things.
One way to free up hard drive space taken up by Lightroom is to delete second copies of photos added during import with the “Make a second copy” box checked. If you check this box Lightroom will make a second copy every time you import images into Lightroom. I checked the folder where these files are copied to and freed up 196GB of hard drive space.
What? 196GB?
Yep. 196GB of hard drive space. Blimey. Now that is significant. So what am I talking about here? Who am I, and why do I make these duplicate sets?
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