Delete photo's on SD card after import

[Nick_66]

Hi all,

Just new on this forum and using LR for a couple of months now. Watched a ton of tutorials on Youtube and learned a lot but there is still more to learn.

I have a question about importing pictures from my SD card to my externel HD and my LR catalog.

After import I immediately start to select the pictures I want to keep and those which I don't want to keep. When I made my selection I press ctrl-backspace and delete all the pictures which I flagged as rejected out of my LR catalog and also on my external HD. Is there also a way to delete all the rejected pictures from my SD card?

I find it confusing when I have shooted new pictures and would like to import them the old rejected pictures on my SD card are all selected. I wish the already rejected pictures where faded like the already imported pictures or even better deleted from the SD card.

Thanks for the help.

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[dj_paige · Accepted solution]

Is there also a way to delete all the rejected pictures from my SD card?

There is no such feature in Lightroom.

The advice most people give anyway is that you want to re-format the camera card using the camera itself.

[ManiacJoe]

There is no reason to keep any of the old images on the card. Transfer them all to your hard drive, then be done with them.

After the import, put the card back into the camera and do the quick format to erase the card.