Lightroom Tip - How to Change the Default Backup Location
The default backups are kept in
/Pictures/Lightroom\Backups (Mac) or
\My Documents\My Pictures\Lightroom\Backups on PC.
You cannot change this location directly via a Preference or Options setting. You have to do it via the Scheduled Backup dialog box which will pop up when it is time for your next backup.
To force it to open sooner and make the location change do the following.
1. Open Lightroom and select Catalog Settings from the File menu.
2. Select Every time Lightroom starts from the backup section.
3. Restart Lightroom
4. When the Back Up Catalog box opens you can then
set a new location for the backup folder.
This allows you to backup to any drive, internal or
external, even an USB key drive or iPod.
Try it and see for yourself.
Let me know if this tip helps you.
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Lightroom Tip - Remove old Backups to reclaim disk space
I backup my lightroom catalog regularly. I use the Catalog Setting (below) which prompts me once a week, when I launch Lightroom, to do an automatic backup.
It's a good idea to have
this reminder, and to do the backup, but if you have
been doing this over many months, as I have, then a
considerable amount of disk space gets taken up with
backups.
I checked my '/Lightroom/Backups/' folder recently
and there were over 3GB of backups!
You have to delete the
backups manually so make sure you leave the last
couple in place.
Worth doing if you are short of disk space!
Let me know if this tip helps you.
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