P: "Trash" Functionality

Forgive my awful typos! I can't seem to find how to edit my post, I did it from my phone and can see now there are several of them. Oops!

Just crasy a 12€/month (or maybe 24) needs such a workflow to insure everything goes right.
Finally photos from iOS/os app offer a convenient service of 10€/month allowing to use and share 2tb the way you want.

And for the price you can even print photo if your want.

In order to combat this issue, I have multiple backups. I do believe they need to implement this function asap however.


My workflow is as follows:


I first unload all my raw photos from their SD cards after a shoot into a well organized external hard drive. (5TB to be exact, large enough for several years of average use, I don't even have half of it full and the is over 12k of photos on it now.)


I organize them into a folder by year first then into a single sub folder named "YYYY.MM - Shoot Name" this keeps the folders in order enough for me to find them easily without a ton of sub folders to dig thru.


Next, from my external I upload them to my GSuite drive where I have unlimited storage. (You can use any cloud storage you want and just pay for what you need as you go or skip this step if your not concerned about having a 3 part back up. (If you skip a secondary cloud step, I would recommend keeping two external hard drives with you photos on them and replacing every other hard drive every two years or sooner if you can. Standard hard drives are great, but they don't do a good job at warning you when they are about to fail and it is very expressive to have data recovered from a failed drive, not to mention they may not be able to restore it all anyways.


Lastly I upload them to LR Cloud where I go thru them all and prices them. My album structure is the same in all places so I can easily find any photo. Since I have my other two backups (external hard drive and GSuite) I do remove any photos that I didn't not want to keep from LR Cloud. I do this by first flagging my best photos with the check mark and flagging any throw aways with the x Mark. When finished, I use a filter to delete x marked photos and then begin my processing with the photos that are left.


If I accidentally deleted a photo from LR Cloud, I have two backups that contains every photo I have ever taken, and my best photos are not backed up there times at minimal cost to me.

I just recently uploaded all my photos from Classic to CC and while I am quite happy, especially with the new inteface, I could hardly believe that there is no way to recover accidentally deleted files.

So I fully support the request to finally implement this very basic feature.

In the meantime, I have activated the option to store all my originals locally and use Time Machine to back them up along with the rest of my data. I suppose, this should allow me to recover at least the original files...

I am just teasing Adobe here. I am sure they I making huge money on our data plans when we are not using them at full capacity. So I believe they want to keep it that way and limit Trash not only by capacity but also by time.

Yeah I guess it’s not necessary to have the timeline, but thought it might be easier to implement as other software have implemented in such manner.

Why 30 days of trash? We all have 1TB of space pre-paid so why not just use free space left? I mean you have like 300GB of photos so 700GB can be used for that Trash and only when adding new photos the oldest one in Trash would be deleted permanently. 

It is not necessary to delete trash automatically after some period of time if you have lot of space, is it?

Would be awesome to see a "Trash" functionality to be implemented. Maybe it'll automatically delete permanently after 30 days? But at the same time allowing the users to clear the trash manually. Thanks!

There is a warning when deleting a photo, yes. But we need to be able to undo deletion of a photo. Right now, it's not possible. This is really unsafe from a usability point of view. As you know, Apple Photos keeps deleted photos around for a month in case you change your mind. At the very least, we need to be able to restore deleted photos through the undo menu command. (And yes, sync them back to the library if needed). I'm constantly afraid of losing photos permanently because of a lack of this very basic feature.

This is really getting kinda of absurd that they haven’t added this feature yet.