I've noticed that when I run a backup of my Pictures folder ChronoSync seems to spend most of its time working on the "Lightroom 2 Catalog previews.lrdata" file.
On checking my hard drive, I see that this file is now up to 12GB in size (out of 165GB in the full Pictures folder). My old LR 1.4 previews.lrdata file is just a couple of MB in size.
My question is, is this normal? Should the previews.lrdata file really be that big, or has mine just got bloated somehow and maybe needs purged in some way?
Any suggestions welcome - thanks in advance
Jim
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It's not a file, it's a package (on the Mac, anyway): try control-clicking and "view package contents", and you'll see vast numbers of cryptically-named folders and files.
I think the size of the package depends on your preview settings in LR: what dimensions they are and, perhaps more importantly, how long 1:1 previews are kept.
I don't back up this package when I do my nightly ChronoSync backups: they're only previews, after all. If catastrophe strikes, it's not likely to take more than an overnight run to regenerate them all.
Jeremy