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Inspiring
April 19, 2022
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I'd like to delete several actions at once in the history of my edits.

  • April 19, 2022
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Sometimes when trying to do an edit in Photoshop, I make several changes.  Then I decide that I don't like it.  I'd like to be able to select several of those little checkboxes to the left of the action item (the actual edit that I made) that shows in history and delete those actions all at once, rather than having to delete each and every one individually.

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Correct answer LindaCinMaine

Thank you so much for helping, everyone!  I finally figured it out.  For anyone who is like me and needs a bit more description, here are my instructions. In the history panel, highlight the entire line of the last spot that you want to delete. It will delete everything after that (ignore the little check box), then hit the trash can icon!

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Kukurykus
Legend
April 21, 2022

You don't have to delete them, just select some of previous history steps (not on a box) and continue working.

Inspiring
April 21, 2022

@Stephen Marsh , did that help?  I can only select one of those at a time and delete each one individually if I decided that I didn't like any of the last edits that I made to the picture. I'd like to know how to check all of the boxes that I want and delete those edits all at once.  Right now, I'm doing one at a time.  Is there a way?

Inspiring
April 21, 2022

 

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 20, 2022

@LindaCinMaine – can you please clarify which panel? Is it History, Actions or something else? Post a screenshot if that helps.

Kukurykus
Legend
April 20, 2022

Now I think it's not clear which panel she refers to.

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 20, 2022

@J453 - I believe that the request is for the History panel.

Legend
April 20, 2022

Hmm. This functionality is already in the Actions panel. Shift or cmd click to select more than one step and hit the Trash can button.

Kukurykus
Legend
April 20, 2022

Select single ones (with shift) and drag them in bulk to trash can (or click delete from contextual menu).

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 20, 2022

The checkboxes are to set the source of the history brush.

 

Being able to shift or ctrl/cmd select multiple steps would be workable without having to add an extra checkbox.