P: "Trash" Functionality

No.  I cancelled my subscription.

I get chasing top line features to attract new users and say that progress is being made.  Ignoring basic functionality and usability sucks though.  This, rubbish keyboarding and the ever absent smart albums just make Adobe feel like the Microsoft of digital imaging.

You need to objectivize the problem. 

Yes Barry Young’s post explain it is top priority.
But after 9 months!
And 2 more months after this post, what happen? Nothing.

And really. Are you happy to pay a whole 24 bucks/month to use 2 non compatible software and need a third one to backup something which is in the cloud.

What the point of this? Is this serious?


Are LR users happy to use this kind of gimmick for 288€/year?

The Lightroom CC team has acknowledged the feature is missing and confirmed it is on their roadmap with top priority (see @763952 Young’s post above).


There is a *workaround* for the time being:

you can use the Lightroom downloader app to download a full resolution of all your photos stored in the creative cloud to a local drive:

https://lightroom.adobe.com/lightroom...


The last time I checked, the tool does not do a synchronization, meaning it does NOT delete the photos on disk when they are deleted on the cloud so if the downloader is run regularly, let’s say after you make significant changes to your catalog, it can be used as a safety net to recover photos that were deleted by mistake on the cloud.
If you add the downloader to your workflow and run it every time you upload to the creative cloud then it can be a way to have a backup of every single file you have uploaded to the creative cloud.

The downloader is smart enough to only download new photos when run on subsequent occasions so you won’t be downloading your entire catalog each time you run it, only the delta since the last run. It also seems to download edits.


Far from perfect but better than nothing until the team releases the true “undo delete” or “recently deleted” feature.

Months, months months after launch, no idea if it will be implemented or not.

The only thing I can recommend is to backup frequently. Probably not suffisant but better than nothing

Rather than simply deleting images, could we have an option to have a recently deleted folder like Apple Photos does, where images are retained for x number of days then auto deleted. This would solve accidental deletion of key images and with no backup (i.e. shot in LR CC iOS in-camera) would be lost forever!

Hi Jon.
Thank you for the sharing. Will read carefully seems absolutely gorgeous

Regards

I've been working on writing up my workflow and I actually just finished. You can see my workflow both before switching to CC and after here: http://hikingwithcamera.com/2018/my-photography-workflow/

The idea of local backup is a really good idea. (It is crazy we need to do this) but yeah, this is what I want.

Can you please share your workflow?

Hi Barry, nice to know the issue is top priority. Thanks for consideration. Hope the patch is available shortly.

I’m actually not sure the Trash model is the best route here. A history of actions and the ability to go back and selectively or completely undo would be more powerful (and somewhat more unique). Also, the ability to reveal deleted items anywhere (in any album, etc.) might be super useful. That said, at the minimum, a Trash album is definitely warranted. I also accidentally deleted the wrong photo, though I’m maintaining a separate, unsynced backup of my photos in a Lightroom Classic catalog, on top of local backups of my Lightroom CC originals, so I was able to easily recover. However, that didn’t stop a moment of panic.