LRCAT. PREVIEW of a file is 17 GB.  What happens if this file is deleted?

Understand the primary LRCAT catalog should not (always) be deleted; What is happening is the LRCAT. OVERVIEW of a deleted file?

Lightroom 2016 CC takes time L-O-N-G to load and remove the file .preview but reluctant until I hear it's 'safe'

Thank you!

Hi lgray.carter,

If you delete the Previews.lrdata folder, Lightroom would be create automatically a new folder with the same as this folder contain previews of images in the Lightroom Catalog and it will recreate all previews.

If you're reluctant to delete, you can rename this file in previews-old and you will see a new file will be re-created automatically and you can delete the old one more later.

Kind regards

Claes

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