How to back up all photos in Lightroom CC?
garyrhook wrote: The Lightroom catalog is a database that contains asset information and editing steps. Nothing more.
A backup of everything meansShut down Lightroom (it can't be active when you make a copy of the catalog) and copy the folders containing the above to a NAS or external hard drive.
- Knowing where your catalog is stored
- Knowing where your image files are stored
Don't bother with a zip file. Far too much computational and wall clock time for very little space savings.
Thank you for the help Gary.
Now when I close out Lightroom, these are the only 2 options it's giving me:
The zip file was what it gave me when I saved the file doing the above. I don't even see an option to not get that. If I wanted to make sure all the photos that are stored in Lightroom are backed up, including the ones I edited, how can this be done?
Thanks again!
KENT MELTON wrote: Click on your main catalog, right click and click Find in Finder. That should take you to your main folder. Copy that to your back up location.
hope that helps!
that is one way of doing it, however it's not an easy fix as more images are added and you need to keep back ups. 
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