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adriant12105070
adriant12105070
Inspiring
May 21, 2018
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How to delete Cr2 images in bulk, after converting to DNG?

  • May 21, 2018
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I used DXO Photo Lab and on exporting back to Lightroom Classic, Both the Cr2 images and DXO images are side by side. How can i delete the CR2 images in in one

go?

Thanks,

Adrian

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    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    May 21, 2018

    In LR open the Filter bar then the metadata option, then File type in the last search option box and then select CR2 files or they may be listed as simply RAW. Once only the CR2 files are shown Select All, Ctrl + a, then hit the Delete key. In the dialog box that comes up select Delete From Disk.

    adriant12105070
    adriant12105070Author
    Inspiring
    May 21, 2018

    Thanks for your reply. I’m a little confused.....do you mean the screen bottom right Filter selection, as I see no metadata option, and at the top in metadata, no choice that includes CR2.

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    Rob_Cullen
    Community Expert
    Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 21, 2018

    DNG, DXO, ?? which.

    I would NOT  be deleting the CR2 files until we know more details.

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
    adriant12105070
    adriant12105070Author
    Inspiring
    May 21, 2018

    After sending CR2 files to DXO for editing, I exported the DXO edited files as DNG files back to the Lightroom folder. That folder now has both DNG and CR2 images. I want to delete the CR2’s.

    Thanks fir asking.

    Sent from my iPad

    Rob_Cullen
    Community Expert
    Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 21, 2018

    No.!  Don't delete the CR2s.

    If I read- http://forum.dxo.com/index.php?topic=9433.0

    and understand correctly- the DNG exported from DXO is a compressed JPG file just wrapped in the DNG 'container'. So you are losing pixel data in your images.

    Storage (hard-drives) are relatively cheap. Do NOT delete your original, full data, camera files.

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
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