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alyzal84391517
alyzal84391517
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November 11, 2017
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Heeelllpppp

  • November 11, 2017
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Okay, so I usually use DropBox primarily to upload my photos. I'm new to all of this, and didn't realize before deleting the folder on my DropBox I should delete it from my Lightroom. Now I am stuck with over 3,000 photos in my Lightroom catalog and no space to upload new ones... I have YouTubed and Goggled everything and literally cannot find a way to delete these photos!! Can someone please help a gal out??

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    Correct answer Bob Somrak

    You you really do not need the edits to the photos than you can do the following.

    You can select all the MISSING photos in Library Grid view using menu Library/Find All Missing Photos and then selecting them all.

    Then Right click a photo and select Remove Photos from the drop down.  They are already gone so you do not need to Delete from Disk

    You can right-click MISSING folders in the Catalog panel and chose REMOVE as they are already gone.

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    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    November 11, 2017

    I'm not sure I understand the problem as you have described it.

    Is the issue that you don't have space (if so, where is the lack of space)? Or is the issue something else?

    alyzal84391517
    alyzal84391517Author
    Participant
    November 11, 2017

    Okay,

    Here is what my screen looks like.

    This photo was imported to Lightroom using Dropbox, after I edited them I removed the folder from Dropbox to free up space... Now I'm running out of disk space in my Lightroom and cannot delete it because the original folder cannot be found (the folders were  deleted from my Dopbox months ago, so they are not located in the deleted files and I cannot restore them, I tried that already.). So I can remove it, but can't delete it from the disk space.

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    November 11, 2017

    alyzal84391517  wrote

    Now I'm running out of disk space in my Lightroom

    Again, I'm not understanding this. Lightroom itself cannot run out of disk space. Your hard disk can run out of disk space, but you didn't say that is what is happening.

    I cannot restore them, I tried that already.

    More detail is needed. Restore to where? From where? What happened when you tried? Why can't you restore them?

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