Lightroom WONT delete photos from disk

Had the issue with files located on an External Hard Drive (EHD) that Lightroom would not delete. This is what worked out for me:

1) Go to "My Computer"

2) Right-click on the EHD on which the files are located and choose "Properties"

3) Click on the "Security" tab

4) Choose "Everyone" and give "full control". This will take a while but afterwards it will give Lightroom the rights to do something with those files, especially delete them.

5) Go to Lightroom and try again deleting the files you needed to delete.

PLEASE NOTE: it would probably also work if instead of "Everyone" you chose a lower level of ppl/users, but I haven't tried to find which one LR requires. Also, giving all rights to all users of the computer should probably be done on a home computer only.

Good luck!

Hi,

You can try resetting preferences by moving the preferences to the desktop and relaunching the lightroom.

location:  c:\users\user name\appdata\roaming\adobe\lightroom\preferences

I picked this solution from a thread somewhere on this forum and it works for me on Windows 7-64bit/Lightroom 3.

You have to get the permissions correct for folders imported from other PCs:-

- My computer>Right click on the drive that's giving you a probem.

- Click on the "Security"

- Select the User group that applies to you. (In my case it is "Users")

- Click on "Edit" to change permissions.

- Click the first box in the "Allow" column.  (This should put check marks all the way down the column.)

- Click on "Apply"

It then applies the new security permissions to all folders below.

You may have to modify this procedure for your own setup, but the solution is to set the appropriate security permissions.

I had the same problem (LR3.4.1, MacOS Lion) and it turned out that it was my recently installed export-to-zenfolio-plugin bei Jeffrey Friedl (version july 2011). I deleted it (just deactivating was not enough), and all works fine again.

I recently changed from pc to mac..On a pc Lightroom would ask me If I wanted to remove the image from the calalog or delete from the disk ..if I click delete it would send it to the recycle bin and I could delete it from there..this would happen for anything I deleted from any program..with the mac it won't send the image to the trash it will only delete from the disk..why

Yes I have tried run as admin, etc. Photos in collection, marked with reject flag, grid view, unchecked "read only", select all....no option to delete from disk. This is so basic........

Lightroom 3.4.1

Win 7 64bit

I can delete rejected photos, but only when I am looking at the entire catalog.

To Delete:

1. Library
2. Catalog\All Photographs
3. Photos\Delete Rejected Photos

If you are in a collection, this flow only removes the photo from the collection and does not delete it from disk.  This is where I'm having a problem as I do not know an efficient workflow to delete photos from a collection.  Anyone have recommendations for a good workflow for deleting photos from disk, one collection at a time?

Lightroom version: 3.4.1 [749592]

Version: 10.6 [8] (mac osx)

I have tried all the suggestions so far, re permissions, read only, etc. and nothing works.  I am still in the same position as Penny, having to delete through windows, then remove from the catalog.  I also feel this is a bug.  I really appreciate all the suggestions, but I don't find these forums particularly useful - it seems pretty hard to get any real attention from someone connected with the actual program design - as if Adobe passes off responsibility for solving program problems to users. 

I have Lightroom 2.7...i couldn't figure it out either...my disk was full. So I played around and if you go to the top of your page and click on photo it gives you an option to delete photo. When you click on that a box pops up to give you the option to delete from disk also.  Hope that helps...

Hello everyone, surprisingly I'M ALSO SUFFERING THIS BUG !!

LR use to ask me if I wanted to delete a photo from the disk or just from the catalog when I hit the delete button, I'm doing it exactly in the same view that I use to, Library > loop etc.. same all, no joy.... basically the delete choice is the menu Edit is greyed out, also Cut, Copy and Paste are.

I'm on local, not network drive...

I'm running LR 2.4 in a PowerBook G4 on Mac OS X 10.5.7.

I would be very interested to know how to fix this BUG, as it's costing me time and money having to go to the folders and delete my rejected pics manually !! that sucks....

Also tried from Menu > Photo > Delete Rejected Photos/Delete Photo and same all, not joy... the pics disappear from the collection/catalog.. but they are still in the folders....

I also tried to reset all warning dialogs in the Preferences > General, thinking that I was missing the menu or that I could have tick the box to "stop bothering me with the bloody message ! " but not ! ... there was not change, Lr will not let me delete the pics from the Disk.....

After all this time using the appl i have to say that is the only flaw that I have come across with, and it's a shame to do so...

If anybody find a solution please let me know, however the developers from Adobe should start looking at this blogs !!!!!!!!!!

Good luck to ye all