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JBrouwers
Inspiring
October 2, 2018
Question

How To remove Collection without deleting pictures?

  • October 2, 2018
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Good morning everyone,

Would you know how to:

Remove a collection without deleting pictures in that collection?

I am cleaning up my collections.

Thank your help,

- Jessie

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dj_paige
Legend
October 2, 2018

To remove a collection without removing the photos:

RIght click on the collection name and ... well, you can figure it out from there.

JBrouwers
JBrouwersAuthor
Inspiring
October 17, 2018

Thank you -  I was afraid, it would also remove pictures within the collection.

Just Shoot Me
Legend
October 2, 2018

Collections are just LISTS of images. Like writing a list of your albums/CDs. If you throw that list away you still have the actual album/CD.

You may have to first Remove all the image entries from the collection/LIST before you can delete, Remove, the Collection Name. Not sure I've never needed or wanted to remove a collection, as far as I can remember.

JBrouwers
JBrouwersAuthor
Inspiring
October 17, 2018

Thank you - I was not sure.

MarekMularczyk
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 2, 2018

When you remove a collection, it doesn't remove the images because the images don;t really exist in the collection.

A collection is just a link to images in your catalogue (and your hard drive).

That's why when you remove a collection, Lightroom doesn't give you any warning dialogue box.

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JBrouwers
JBrouwersAuthor
Inspiring
October 17, 2018

Good to know - Thanks for taking the time to answer

MarekMularczyk
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 17, 2018

Always pleasure to help

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