Lightroom backups folder. Huge size.

In "My Pictures" is a folder called Lightroom, where all the catalogues and backups are stored. A while ago, I had a major crash on the computer and lost everything on my hard disc. I was able to restore most from my external hard drive.
Now, in the Lightroom folder I have the following folders:
Backups - this is 11.7 gb and contains multiple back ups. Can I safely delete some of the older ones?
Lightroom 2 catalogue - size greater than 97 gb. This has masses of backups inside it going back to 2008. Also inside this folder is a Lightroom previews lrdata file of 7.7gb and a Lightroom 2 catalogue of 1.44 gb
Lightroom 2 catalogue previews.lrdata with a number of folders 0-9 and A-F in it. 8.7 gb
Lightroom 3 catalogue previews. lrdata. Same as above but for LR3. 513 mb
Lightroom catalogue previews.lrdata This probably relates to LR1 and appears to be empty.
Lightroom previews.lrdata Again seems to relate to LR1 and is empty.
Lightroom settings That's OK
Lightroom 3 backups That's OK too.
All the above are shown as folders. the next lot show as single sheets of paper, if that makes sense to you.
Lightroom 2 catalogue 1.49 gb
Lightroom 3 catalogue 41mb
Lightroom 3 catalogue 2 261mb
Lightroom 3 catalogue 2.lrcat-journal
When using LR3, I have not integrated the LR2 catalogue. LR3 has only a small number of photos in it. This was advised somewhere. I read a post in this forum a few days ago suggesting that the LR files should not be so large as these are. I have a total of about 12,500 photos in the catalogue.
Which files can I delete? All the LR1 files? Old backups, keeping just the latest of each LR2 and LR3?
Why do I seem to be getting multiple backups in different folders?
I am not a computer wizard. My understanding is limited and I don't want to delete data that should not be deleted but this does seem to be using a huge amount of disc space.
JW

Many thanks. I back up weekly or more often to an external drive, including all the LR files so I feel reasonably happy about them being on the same disc. I can get rid of masses of old backups, then. That should release some disc space.
JW

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I made a backup of my one laptop (MacBook Pro running 10.6.8) before installing Mavericks. The backup folder size is 258.56 GB and it is on a 1TB WD external. There are no other computers backed up in this folder.
Last night, I tried to copy the backup folder to another 1TB WD external and ran into the “you can’t do that” message. After some researching, I came across articles explaining how Time Machine handles HDs and, in order for me to copy my backup folder, the drive I want to copy the folder to needs to have the “Ignore ownership on this volume” deselected.
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(1) The computer I want to use – a Power Mac G5 Quad running 10.4.11 (non intel) – is showing a backup folder size of 592.7 MB, but the HD shows there is 258 GB being used. When I drag copy, I only get a 592.7 MB backup folder. For some reason, the backup folder is the only folder acting this way. I compared other folders from the same and different externals and all the sizes match up perfectly no matter the computer they were connected to. How is this possible?
(2) My second option - Mac Pro (early 2009) running 10.9.4 – is showing a 256.15 GB backup folder size. Very close, but not 258.56 GB.
(3) My last option is to use the computer I’m trying to stay away from, the MacBook Pro running 10.6.8. This is the computer I backed up and is showing me the correct folder size = 258.56GB. As I mentioned, I'd like to work on my laptop while copying the backup folder using one of my other computers.
I am able to drag and drop from each computer, but the folder size depends on the computer I’m using. I don’t understand why I can't do a simple drag and drop of a 258 GB folder.
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The directory files that you are seeing are not real. They are links to the actual backup files that are stored in a hidden directory on the drive. If you were to look at the same drive on a pc, you would see the folders and you would a list files that are in the folders but the files would all be 0 byte files and Windows will tell you the file is empty because there is nothing there but a link which Windows does not understand.
So the point is you can't just copy the backupd files. The best solution that I know of (and maybe someone else will chime in) for copying them is to mirror the drive with something like Carbon Copy or some other program.
See this site for more information about time machine and how it works: http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

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Wow, that's great. I continue to admire how easily Lightroom works with its users needs. I teach photography, incidentally, and tonight we're discussing workflow including backing up and quickly touching on LR. I'm designing a new course dedicated to LR and workflow starting this summer (and have an existing LR intro course). Thanks, Don.

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friends i have exchange 2013 SP1... my logging folder is growing like anything .. can some one advise the best practices around it .. i am not sure how i can clean this ... same is happening with inetpub log .. is this related???.. in few months its around
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This is by design due to the architectural changes in the product. However have seen cases where it caused issues. you can:
Move Logging folders to another drive in Exchange 2013 via Powershell:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/22479.move-logging-in-exchange-2013-via-powershell.aspx
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3603
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Limit Time Machine Backups Folder Size?

It there a way to limit the size of the Time Machine backups folder? I have 100GB of data on my MacBook's drive that TM is backing up to a 500GB external drive. In 18 months the backups folder has grown to 375GB. I'd prefer not to have to get another drive in 6 months, so can I put a limit on this somehow?

Roast Beef wrote:
It there a way to limit the size of the Time Machine backups folder? I have 100GB of data on my MacBook's drive that TM is backing up to a 500GB external drive. In 18 months the backups folder has grown to 375GB. I'd prefer not to have to get another drive in 6 months, so can I put a limit on this somehow?
That's exactly how TM is designed. It will use all the space assigned to it for backups.
You won't have to get a new drive in 6 months. Just un-check the +Warn when old backups are deleted+ box in TM Preferences > Options, and when the disk gets almost full, TM will automatically delete your oldest backups to make room for new ones.
Or, if you want to use part of that drive for other things, you can make a second partition for the other data. See item #6 of the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum. It tells you how to add a TM partition to a disk that already has data on it, but the procedure is the same.
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I am setting up a time machine backup to a external Hard drive. I want to backup by Mac book Pro running OSX 10.8.5. I would like to Partition the disk and use one partition for Time machine backups and the other for my Lightroom backups. How to do this?

I want to create a two partition disk. One partition for time machine, the other for Lightroom backup. Currently Time Machine is using the entire drive and it is doing the intial encryption and is about 29% complete after two days. I've decided that I want to turn encryption off and partition the disk. So I do I start over?

With the external drive attached, open Finder>Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility. Select the external drive from the list in the left side panel of the DU window. In the main window panel, click Partition in the buttons top center of that panel.
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Never import one Library to another. Every version and thumbnail is imported like a distinct photo, you lose all your Albums, Keywords etc., the link between Original and Previews is destroyed, the non-destructive editing feature is ruined and so on. In summary: it's mess.
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TD

I am using UPK developer 12.1.0 single user. My sofware has crashed and needs reinstallation. Please suggest how can I take back up of my source files. I am unable to open the application and i can not locate the library backup folder on my local machine.

I am using UPK developer 12.1.0 single user. My sofware has crashed and needs reinstallation. Please suggest how can I take back up of my source files. I am unable to open the application and i can not locate the library backup folder on my local machine.
Also, does reinstallation takes the back up automatically or the files will be lost. Please help.

Here are a bunch of scripts to get folder size under all circumstances. Take your pick.
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/site/search?query=get%20folder%20size&f%5B0%5D.Value=get%20folder%20size&f%5B0%5D.Type=SearchText&ac=2
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How do you purge/compress/shrink the iPhoto11 folder/file size?

How do you purge/compress/shrink the iPhoto11 folder/file size?
I have been using iPhoto since iLife'05 and have always upgraded with each iteration of iLife. Without exception, I had just recently upgraded to iPhoto'11 when iLife'11 came out. Because I have used iPhoto to store all my photos and videos taken over the last 5 years or so, my iPhoto folder/file has become bigger and bigger over time and so I moved it to an external hard-drive. My main iPhoto'11 folder/file has 14,367 photos, 995 videos and is indicated to be 83 GB by iPhoto'11. But "Get Info" in Finder reports a whopping 130 GB.
I started to think that this is getting a little crazy and I had wanted to better manage my photo collection, so I decided to "divide and conquer" this gigantic iPhoto'11 folder/file into several smaller, more manageable sized ones. So I made a duplicate copy of this gigantic iPhoto'11 folder/file onto another external hard-drive, fire-up iPhoto'11 again to delete away almost 80% of the photos and 90% of the videos. Now, my "slimmed-down" iPhoto folder/file has 3,000 photos, 75 videos and is indicated to be 6.8 GB by iPhoto'11. But despite the new "slimmed-down" status, the "Get Info" in Finder reports a still very huge 44 GB. Where did all those bulk come from? I have emptied both the iPhoto'11 Trash Can and Mac OS X Trash Can and these steps did not seemed to change anything at all.
Therefore, I wanted to see what the "Get Info" in Finder will report if I were to delete 99.99% of the photos and video to leave just one (1) photo in iPhoto'11? Guess what is the result? My "One Photo experimental" iPhoto folder/file has 1 photo, 0 videos and is indicated to be 2 MB by iPhoto'11 yet the "Get Info" in Finder reports a mysterious 36.3 GB. There must be something hiding inside!
Help! What can I do?

I went on to try trashing away some of the folders and files inside and found that I could actually do it quite neatly if I go by the year which the photos are taken. After a lot of trial and error working on duplicate copy of my iPhoto '11 library, I am able to do away with all the clutter within the library and still open it normally.
Now my 44GB obese iPhoto'11 library has been slimmed down to just a little over 7 GB (5 GB as reported by iPhoto'11) and I am just comfortable dealing with 2 GB of "don't-know-what-info" of clutter within the library.
Remember my "One Photo Experimental" iPhoto'11 library that was 36.3 GB? I managed to bring it down to the realistic 22 MB size. This size is still double that of a brand new iPhoto'11 library I created to import 1 photo. However, it sure beat having 36.3 GB of clutter.
So, now what I am gonna do is to "divide and conquer" the duplicate copies of my iPhoto'11 library into smaller sized ones according to their year. But I think I'll still keep the original bloated, gigantic 130 GB intact and continue to feed it with photos and videos until maybe it becomes 1 TB! Yikes!
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"error occurred while creating the backup folder" (-50)

Symptoms:
Bare HDD (Hitachi 1TB). When run on a simple cable setup, no issues. Recently got a Thermaltake BlacX dock, which is more convenient. First and more backup of any given session goes fine, then at some point, the error occurs, after which I can't unmount the drive without forcing it. After I force-eject, I can then reconnect the drive and backups will be fine again.
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This implies that something between Time Machine, OSX and the BlacX are unhappy. Repair and reset haven't helped. Thoughts? I can always go back to using the cable, it was just a pain to set up, so I did backups less frequently, which is bad for me.
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Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.
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Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine 1/Backups.backupdb
Error: (22) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.ModelID path:/Volumes/Time Machine 1/Backups.backupdb/gwiseman (2) size:13
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G'day all. Partner has an iMac 21.5 with Intel processor. OSX 10.6.4
Interestingly, we also have the exact same problem with a different brand external hardware RAID 1 as follows:
Welland Terra ME-580J fitted with two Samsung 1.5TB SATAII 3.5" 32M HD154UI drives.
The Welland site [http://www.welland.com.tw/html/2bay/580j.html] info is pretty brief but it DOES show Mac/PC in its brochure.
Connected via USB2.
From new we had to go through the initialisation stuff and had lots of hair pulling moments. Basically the RAID1 drive needed to be partitioned.
As with Geoffrey, TM did an initial full back up, then went OK for a few hours, then TM started giving the error message "error occurred while creating the backup folder".
Additionally any repair attempts via Disk Utility failed because the TM (Raid1 drive) couldn't be unmounted.
ALL apps were shut down leaving only Finder. Still couldn't unmount ext HDD. Kept getting the message that an app may be using the drive, etc.
Forced demount. Unplugged USB, turned power off to Welland and re-arranged the drives to be two independent drives.
Re powered the Welland, re-connected by USB, and there were TWO drives shown as "Time Machine" except one had the TM icon, the other a standard USB icon. This is exactly as I would have expected seeing as RAID1 disks have identical data on each.
RE-partitioned the USB drive to a) remove all data and b) change its name to avoid confusion.
TM now seems happy. I'm NOT happy, however, as this completely negates the whole idea of having back-ups to a RAID1 set-up.
It would be easy to suggest there is a problem within iMac/OS X, as two people having exactly the same problems with completely different hardware is just too much of a co-incidence.
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PS please be kind to me, as I haven't gained a lot of Mac knowledge yet!

About lightroom backups

I just found out that the weight of my lightroom backups is more than 50 GBs which is killing my computer and making LR terribly slow.
anyone knows if it is normal? how can i down size?
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I think you are confusing backups of LR catalogs (essentially the metadata that LR uses to process an image) and back ups of the actual image files themselves. Two very different things.
You LR catalog back ups that are created according to the schedule you set in preferences are just back ups of the catalog, not the image files themselves. These will be located where ever you have directed LR to put them and would usually be on a different disk to wherever your working catalog is located. They will usually be separate folders created and named with the date they were created. You only really need to keep the last two or three of these if everything is working fine..the others can be deleted.
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