Comments on: It’s “Delete Your Outdated Lightroom Catalog Backups” Monday!

By: Gerry Mulligan

Gerry Mulligan — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:17:12 +0000

I guess I’ve been very lazy about this. I took a look and I’ve never deleted a backup. There were more than 400 dating back to 2011. I’ve now deleted most except for the last 3 or 4. I agree, Adobe should automate this
–Gerry

By: Al

Al — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 08:11:27 +0000

Thanks to Time Machine on Mac I avoid this hassle, instead I have a “Optimize your catalog” monday.

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 02:43:38 +0000

In reply to CS Chua. I agree – it's time for a better more modern solution.

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 02:42:59 +0000

In reply to John H. I do delete those as well – everything related except the latest couple of backups.

By: worktime

worktime — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 14:58:15 +0000

Absolutely agree with CS Chua. In 2023, we were expecting more cutting-edge features in Lightroom, especially in the task management and data organization department. I reckon Adobe needs to focus on updating features like automatic import, smart collections, and enhancing the filter system. And yeah, cleaning up outdated files from previous versions that are no longer necessary would be handy too. Looking forward to some upgrades!

By: CS Chua

CS Chua — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 01:31:05 +0000

It is 2023. Why do we need to be reminded of this task? Adobe is way overdue to implement a action task manager to perform this with a delete on meeting a specific condition. Adobe is neglecting the most important competitive advantage of Lightroom which is DAM. Adobe had not made any enhancements in this area for years. Features like expanding auto import functionality, smart collections and the sql filters, expanding the list of selectable metadata to the Library Filters, housekeeping task manager to schedule cleaning “All sync photos” images no longer needed to be in the cloud, auto-refreshing previews, smart previews, optimising catalog and etc. Clean up the present arcane collections schema and bake in a similar smart-collection sync methodology by Jeffery Friedl. The present implementation of the collections is a mess without any thought of maintainability.

By: John H

John H — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:46:26 +0000

Is it okay to go ahead and delete the older “associated” files to the previous versions that are left behind? Like the catalog files, helper data files etc that belonged to those previous versions? They’re not huge files, but they are there.