Lightroom Import Storage

Hello! I am new to Lightroom and have thousands of photos I would like to import. I have them stored on an external drive and just imported my first batch and saved them to another external drive. The problem is that after the first batch I lost about 9GB of hard drive space on my computer. How can I recover this space and is there a way to avoid using my laptop hard drive to store information? Thanks!

I don't know how many images you imported, but Lightroom does create a previews folder in which it generates previews for all the images that are imported. That previews folder is located in the same folder with your catalog, and that is usually stored on the main hard drive of your computer. The previews folder can become very large. Generating 1:1 previews will speed things up in the Library module, but generally don't help at all in the Develop module. The Develop module generates its own preview of each image that reflects all of the adjustments you have made. I have a catalog that contains about 8800 images that are not stored on my main hard drive. But the previews folder for that catalog is nearly 8 GB. You can move your catalog and previews folder and other related folders to your external hard drive. But that could impact performance.
Check the size of the folders within your catalog folder. What is the size of the folder that has the extension .lrdata?

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