Delete from Disk as default

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
December 11, 2021
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Is there a way to make the "delete photo from disk" a default when pressing backspace? I use the catalog also to select the photos and I don't want to keep all the originals! It would be ok even if the pre-selected option was the one I want, so that I could just press backspace and then Enter...but now the pre-selected option is remove from catalog. This means that every time I have to use the mouse when choosing which photos to keep. When you have 1000-2000 photos a time it's super annoying!

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Geoff Bartlett

Inspiring

I usually select the photos I want to delete, switch to "All Photos" view and delete from there.

BartonGarrett256

Inspiring

I completely agree, and I want to see each file I delete at the time I delete it. I don't want to delete a batch of files, I want the option of setting delete from disk as default as I review each image, period. I am the customer. The current system is horrible, I hate it. I have to delete thousands of files every week, and having to wait for a pop up asking me if I really want to delete each file is infuriating. Just make the mother may I please set up the default, but give us an option to bypass it.

Same goes for the pop up can't delete that file. Give me an option to set a delay before that comes up, it is also poor system set up.

D Fosse

Adobe Expert

No way. If that was even possible, there would be an avalanche of complaints from users claiming that Lightroom deleted their files with no warning. If a setting is available, enough people will set it without knowing what they're doing.

BartonGarrett256

Inspiring

If that was even possible? That's a good one. Pleeeze, don't insult me. I do this for a living, that's fall off a log easy.

Lightroom is an antiquated program that gets no resources, things like this and a clunky keywording system that can't be user configured to any useful extent drive me nuts. Pr and Ae at least I can move tabs around and configure my work areas. They added that 20 years ago. This program is the red headed stepchild.

Modern cameras can generate thousands of images in one session, they need to make it easier for professionals to work with them. I don't want "mother may I" systems. Nor do I want plug ins, the companies making them come and go like mushrooms after a rain.

JohanElzenga

Adobe Expert

Don't press Backspace, press 'X'. That marks the photo as Rejected. At the end of the reviewing process, you can then delete all rejected photos at once with a single extra click. Lightroom even has a menu for deleting rejected photos.

-- Johan W. Elzenga