How to delete photos?

Hi everyone,

Having the same problem which is really frustrating. Was just about to make the switch to Lightroom Classic to organise my photos, but this is obviously a deal breaker. I have no interest in removing the photo from Lightroom and then from the disk separately.

Photos are located on the same hard drive as Lightroom and are not stored in the Cloud.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Philip

Ok, not a procedural issue, but a technical problem.

1. Are the images that will not move to the trash located in the exact same directory as those that did move to trash?

What I am getting at, is a issue involving user permissions involved? Not with the trash folder, with the folder the images are in.

2. Are the images that will not move to trash on a volume that does not allow fir a trash folder? Once again, where are they.

3. Do the images actually exist, or are you just looking at an orphaned preview? Would have though a different error would present.

For at least one of the problematic images, right click and select to show in finder, Does it exist? Then with it still showin in Finder, go back in LR and remove it (just remove, not delete) removing the database record of it from the catalog. Then in finder, attempt to delete it. This will be purely an OS delete, divorces LR from the test. Still get an error?

Also "IF" you really want to Delete image files what does it matter if they are or are not moved to the trash first?

"IF" you are using the Trash as a repository for items you may want to recover that is an Extremely Bad Idea. Do you throw garbage in your kitchen trash can and then take it out at a later time and put it back in a cabinet, or the refrig?

In LR, including on a MAC, you do not drag the file into the trash. You right click on it, and select remove. You will be asked if to remove just from the catalog, or to also delete it.

not at a computer might have some syntax incorrect

lucky enough as it is to type in not as opposed to nit. Opps, no I was not, had to correct one.