Most people don’t know how to remove these unnecessary backups so I usually end up doing it for them. But now there is a new feature in Lightroom Classic that gives the user easy access to their catalog backups and enables them to manage the number of backups.

In the past changing the name of a catalog had to be approached with caution because it was something that needed to be done in a convoluted way outside of Lightroom Classic. Now it’s simple.

In recent years Adobe has done a really good job of confusing everyone about its versions of Lightroom. Back in the old days we only had one current version at a time and they were named Lightroom 1, Lightroom 2, etc. This numbering strategy changed when Adobe moved most products to its subscription model, named Adobe Creative Cloud.