Free Up Space, move old image files to an external drive.
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Ok, so there is a balance between having your files on hand for whenever you might need them and running out of hard drive space.
I was sitting at 4GB of hard drive space left free and thought it was about time to move older pictures onto another drive.
Since I break down my images into year and month I can not only keep my folder structure in line, but I can easily select the least likely images to be used and move them to another location.
There are two factors with Lightroom that make this so easy to do. First, if you move a folder, lightroom will gray-out the folder letting you know that it isn't there anymore. Then you can tell Lightroom the new location of the folder and then everything will be good to go. Secondly, when the external drive isn't connected the preview images can still be used. This means that if you have 1:1 previews on that you can basically continue to browse your entire library.
By moving 2001-2007 to a remote drive I freed up 30+ GB, room that I'll fill up in the next year.
Let me recommend Disk Inventory X to all mac users. This will graphically show you how your hard drive is being filled. It can show you the areas that lightroom is using and what areas would free up the most disc space if you moved them.
You can see how much space Lightroom takes. That yellow block is Lightroom catalog file.
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Wow! I also have lots of pictures in various folders and i would like to know more about this light room.
