Luminar Windows - Choose Image Cache location

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KloPapa

• January 01, 2019 11:23

Hi,

I am using Luminar for Windows and syncing the Catalog to Google Drive. Google Drive is hooked up with Google Photos so that my DSLR Fotos are also showing up there.

 

However unlike the Mac version (correct me if I am wrong) the Windows version saves its cached jpegs near the catalog folder. This causes a problem: Google Photos now is indexing those images and I have duplicates.

Question: is it, or will it be possible to move the cache location somewhere else? That way I would only sync the catalogue itself and not the cached images

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  Tom Pickering

  • January 02, 2019 22:20

  It would appear that there is no choice on the location of the catalog at present, at least for the Windows version, which is in your Pictures folder.

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  Angela Andrieux

  • January 10, 2019 21:25

  Hi KloPapa,

  You can move your catalog folder (with the cache) to an external drive or cloud drive that is locally synced, if you wish. However, please do not move the cache file(s) out of the Luminar Library folder.

  You can also choose where to store your Luminar catalog folder during your initial setup of the software. The default is your Pictures folder, but you can set a different location if you like.

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  Simon Hatfield

  • July 27, 2019 01:13

  I too would like to relocate the Luminar cache from the Pictures directory to another drive in Windows. It would be great if you had an option to be able to do this.

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  Kate Williams

  • July 27, 2019 06:49

  Hi Simon,

  We do not plan to change the catalog organization in the foreseeable future; still, I will let our techs know that making the cache location optional is important to you so that they could consider it for the future development. 

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  Lenny Verkhovsky

  • February 07, 2020 21:35

  I see that Luminar Cache is locate on OneDrive folder:

  C:\Users\lennyb\OneDrive\Pictures\Luminar Catalog-4\PreviewCache\18

  how can I change it? I think that this might be a reason for a low performance of the preview

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  Lenny Verkhovsky

  • February 07, 2020 21:50

  Is there any aging or clean process? I see that preview cache takes about 15Gb, while I don't need this cache any more. 

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  Anna V

  • February 08, 2020 11:15

  Hi Lenny, 

  We don't recommend making any changes in the Luminar Catalog folder on your HD. 

  Luminar Cache is cleared and updated automatically.

  Hope for your patience. 

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