How do I recover hard disk space used by Lightroom?

Question

I had Lightroom installed and it was taking up around 25 GB of space on my C drive as backup of some sort. So I simply went and removed all the catalog files-which was only 2 MB- from the default location. It still didn't clear up the space. So I thought uninstalling Lightroom might help but even after uninstalling it, all the space is still used up. I am missing almost 30 GB, my C drive just has 64 KB of space left and I can barely run my pc. How do I recover that space? Please help.

Answer 1

You need to delete the LR backups, not the catalogue files. You don't need multiple backups of your catalogue. I only keep the last three backups to be safe.