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As my Lightroom catalog grows ther eare some photographs I would like to preserve, but where I don't need all the editing latitude offered by RAW.

I know I can convert them to DNG, but are there other options I can explore directly in Lightroom? I would like to avoid export / reimport as the files are located in several folders. What they have in common is a low rating.

There are possible duplicates in here and here, but they do not provide answers for converting in-place.

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After some experimenting with lossy DNG compression, it seems to reduce file size to roughly 1/3 with almost no visual degradation. This is not bad at all, but I would not mind suffering loss of some detail to reduce the file size further. Something along the lines of 1/10 would be ideal. – Henrik Helmers Dec 29 '12 at 11:07
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Your requirement around not having to export or reimport isn't going to happen with Lightroom. Or as you called it"convering in-place". As far as I know this isn't possible, but I could be proven wrong. – dpollitt Dec 29 '12 at 22:50
The files I would like to compress are not in a single folder. If it is possible to export and re-import without losing the folder structure that would by good enough. – Henrik Helmers Dec 30 '12 at 8:21
what you are asking as 1/10 compression comes with jpg @HenrikHelmers , and if you optimise the levels and hls they are not problematic for post process capabilities. About what you demand, you can do this in a long way through bridge and photoshop as far as I know, which will also take a bit of a time. Also reimport is necessary. – Yiğit Hür Ulaş Feb 6 at 9:52

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