Optimize Diskspace with Lightroom Backup

Hi Chinese friends

A few wees ago I wrote an sort post about Lightroom, how to optimize the diskspace, might be helpful for someone.

Despite having a 500GB local HD,  I'm constantly fighting with my files/disk space. Deleting what I can and moving to external disks. Tonight once more I was digging inside my HD to make free space. Really annoying because of the Lightroom back-up folders. In fact they are backed-up twice:

1. They occupy a lot of space on my local HD, several GB

2. They are backed up for a second time with Time Machine

This can't be the solution !!!
When you close Lightroom the system let you choose the backup location. Why not opening a Lightroom backup folder on the back-up disk?
Did it, like on the image above and guess what? It works perfectly ! Not only could delete  the Lightroom Backup file on the local HD but Time Machine is not backing up the files for a second time.
On top it's safer. If the local HD crashes I still have the copy of the files on a separate disk.

Now I have again my 100 GB free space on my local disk.

If this was helpful, feel free to share it among your Lofter friends.

Juerg