Delete files from inside Lightroom

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November 25, 2021
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I am using LR 11.0.1 on Windows 10.

A couple of hours ago I asked the following question. Now I cannot view or retrieve the question.

How do I delete files (photos) from inside Lightroom. I have looke everywhere. All I see is Remove Photo... The Menubar>Photo>Delete Rejected Photos results in a dialog box informing you that you cannot delete rejected photos from a collection set. It suggests that I delete photos from the LR catalog. I cannot figure out how to do that. I have looked everywhere.

Help Help Help. There has to be a way. I older versions you coud do this.

Jim

Windows

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Correct answer dj_paige

You can also delete from "All Photographs".

Inside a collection, you can use the splat-delete which is Alt-Ctrl-Shift-Delete to delete from the collection and from the hard disk. CAUTION: when you do this, the delete happens immediately, there is no dialog box asking "Are you sure?" Use at your own risk.

JHLM

Participant

Same issue here. Lots of googling and one (to be fair very helpful) service chat later, I found out that you indeed cannot delete files on the drive from within the collections module. Why???? Please Adobe, implement a delete option inside the collections module. Or at least enlighten me why it shouldn't be there.

dj_paige

Legend

@JHLM We're not Adobe, we are other Lightroom Classic users; we can't modify the program. You ought to place your comment in the "ideas" section where Adobe will see it.

I would be opposed to this feature request. I think the safety provided to users by not allowing this from collections is important.

dj_paigeCorrect answer

Legend

You can also delete from "All Photographs".

Inside a collection, you can use the splat-delete which is Alt-Ctrl-Shift-Delete to delete from the collection and from the hard disk. CAUTION: when you do this, the delete happens immediately, there is no dialog box asking "Are you sure?" Use at your own risk.

Jim_PalikAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you dj, this is what I am looking for. I do not worry about accidentally deleting the wrong image because I am fully backed up daily. In addition, when I import, I import to DNG but I do not delete my original RAW files. This doubles my hard disk space but has been benificial in many instances since I started using LR from the beginning. I will test this later and let you know if I have any problems. My only issues now are age related. Getting old is not for the timid.

You are always there 🙂

Thank you.

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Per Berntsen

Community Expert

You cannot delete from disk in a collection, only remove them from the collection.

To delete from disk, you have to do it from a folder in the Folders panel.

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