Great space occupied by previews of Lightroom

I have about 22 GB of images on my pc; In addition to this previews.lrdata folder takes more than 3 GB.

This seems a high proportion of disk space total image (or maybe that's not?).

Is there a way to reduce the size of this folder found?

I tried to optimize the catalog but that has no effect.

Lightroom is running OK, but I could do it just with a little more disk space.

Thank you very much.

Mark

I would say / 3 gb is not that much to 22 GB of pictures, and if the / 3 gb will make a difference to your computer, I would buy another hard drive.

That said...

If you are willing to wait for new previews to build when you want to watch them, you can remove the previews.lrdata folder, but just be aware that all previews must return again in the future.

If you go into the settings of the catalogue, you can reduce the size and quality of any future glimpses that are built, but keep in mind that these are the previews you see in the library module, if you don't want them too small or of poor quality.

If you have changed at the premiere of smaller size and you want to perform a new made to them you would have smaller, to delete the folder previews.lrdata (Lr closed) and then select all the photos in the grid view and go to the menu library > Previews > make Standard size found to rebuild in the smallest size.

Alternatively, you can go to library > previews > 1:1 previews unravel to get rid of any size previews of full, but at this size, it seems not that you have a lot.

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