About Luminar Neo Catalog Size

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Jean Pastiere

• April 06, 2022 14:48
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The size of the my luminar neo catalog folder is almost 30 GB. Why is it so huge ?

Is there any way to clean it to reduce its size ?

The resources folder inside CacheDocuments folder inside luminar neo catalog is the one which takes almost 27 GB.

The .tid files inside this folder take almost 23 GB.

I guess that the edits are stored in these files. But in average each edit generates 100 MB file approximalively (I guess it depends on the edits done).

This is really too much. This means that we use 1GB of disk space each 10 edited images.

I think there is some optimization work that should be done there...

In comparison, xmp files of Adobe Camera Raw takes only some KB.

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  Elena Blum

  • April 08, 2022 11:16

  Hi Jean,

  The catalog contains all of the information about your files including metadata like ratings and labels as well as any edits you make with the tools.

  With the edits you make in Luminar you are not changing the actual files but rather capturing the instructions into a database. When you are ready to share or use the file elsewhere you’ll export the image and apply the edits.

  Luminar creates a default catalog when you first launch the application. You can use just this one catalog for all your photos or easily create new catalogs. Catalogs can be located anywhere on your hard drive. 

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  Jean Pastiere

  • April 08, 2022 11:24

  Thanks Elena but you are not answering about my question.

  The problem concerns the size of the generated files.

  100 MB for one image in average is too much. I think that some optimization should be done to store the edits in files with smaller size.

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  Bruce Hyre

  • December 05, 2022 21:49

  My catalog is 32 GIGABYTES after editing about 20-30 images.

  Do I need to buy a RAID farm to edit a few hundred images? Or will you be releasing yet another photo editing program leaving Neo behind before I can get to that many images?

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  Jean Pastiere

  • December 05, 2022 22:02

  Unfortunately, rather than improve and correct all these imperfections in the basic software, they spent their time in developing new extensions... money is money...

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  Darren Kelly

  • December 19, 2022 08:35
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  Am on a Mac. As much as I really like some of the RAW editing features of Luminar Neo (and the workflow), I agree the Catalog file size is way out of control. I'm processing 42 megapixel ARW (Sony RAW) photos. I've done experiments on about 20 photos so far and I'm already up to 85GB Catalog size. I had planned to do at lot of RAW processing with this tool; As it stands I can realistically expect to easily exceed 1TB Catalog usage (if I keep the Luminar edits after exporting). Even with Samsung T7 2TB SSD external media drives (which are not cheap), those would get filled up quickly (in addition to the original source media). Larger cheaper (much slower) external drives are not a good option.

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