The Enthusiast's Guide to Lightroom

51. MANAGING LIGHTROOM BACKUPS

REMEMBER THAT LIGHTROOM is your digital notebook. This notebook keeps track of the location of your pictures as well as any changes that you’ve made to them. The last thing you want to do is lose this notebook. Thankfully, Lightroom gives you the opportunity to back up your catalog so that you can go back to a previously saved version of it if you run into problems.

You can change the frequency of your catalog backups in the Catalog Settings dialog (select Lightroom > Catalog Settings from the toolbar at the top of the screen). Click on the General tab, and then select an option from the Back up catalog drop-down ...