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I think it is safe to say that anyone using a computer or mobile device is already familiar with the concept of local storage, as that is the storage that comes with your actual device. Anyone who has ever gotten a mobile phone with only 16GB of storage is acutely familiar with managing local storage. When you’re purchasing a new device, the size of the hard drive is usually within the top parameters that affects your decision to buy. Likewise, the size of that storage is going to affect the price of that device, and although the cost of storage has gone down overall, it is just a fact that the more storage you buy, the more the device will cost. My point is simply that there is a cost associated with storing our digital lives, and that cost increases over time.

Aside from the internal drive within the computer/device you are using, you are likely using additional storage in the form of external drives connected via cable and possibly even a network-attached storage device. No matter which type or combination of these storage options you are using, one thing they all have in common is that they are all under your local control. In other words, you purchased the actual drives, and they may be physically in your presence, or they are available on your local network. Anything that falls into these categories is what I mean when I refer to local storage throughout the rest of this book. Lightroom Classic can be used entirely with only locally based storage. In other words, no cloud-storage is needed to use Lightroom Classic. The cloud-based Lightroom ecosystem, on the other hand, has different storage requirements. The following sections discuss the Lightroom ecosystem and its associated cloud storage.

Adobe often refers to this family of Lightroom apps for each operating system (macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android) pointing to a central cloud-based storage as the Lightroom ecosystem. In the book’s Introduction I discuss how I refer to the two versions of Lightroom throughout the text.