Deleting photos from disk - disappearing pop-up.

Question

I noticed there are several threads regarding this issue, but reading through them I've not been able to get a clear answer. When I first import photos to a new collection (using the "Add" option) and proceed to develop them, clicking delete on any selected photo brings up the pop-up asking me whether I want to delete from the disk or just from Lightroom... this is very useful of course since I want to be able to discard unwanted photos and clear space on my PC. As soon as I import more photos, to another collection, I then loose the option to delete from disk & this pop-up no longer appears... so it seems that I only have this option for the latest collection. Strangely, I only need to click on Import again without even creating a new collection to have the same issue occur... today I went to import some more photos, but then changed my mind since I hadn't finished editing the current collection, but I lost the ability to delete from disk again. To put it simply, could someone please tell me how I can bring back this option to collections, surely this must be an option?? Thank you and please excuse my rambling on. I am using the latest version of Lightroom Classic CC for Windows 10.

JohanElzenga · Accepted Answer

Sorry but this isn't true. I have been successful deleting photos from within the Develop module... Upon creating a new collection, with the collection selected in the Collections panel, the dialogue appears asking whether I wish to delete from the disk or from Lightroom.

One explanation and then I will give up: when you import images, you can have Lightroom automatically select the 'Current Import' collection (which becomes 'Previous Import' when the import is finished). In older versions that always happened, now it's a choice in the preferences. Maybe that happened with you and -as said- from this collection you can delete images from the catalog and from the disk. If you turned this off in the preferences, and now you have one of your own collections selected, then you will see exactly what I have been telling you all along.

JohanElzenga · Answer

The dialog only appears when you delete a photo while you're in a folder, or in special collections like 'All Photographs' and 'Previous Import'. When you press the delete key while you're in a normal collection, the photo will only be removed from that particular collection, not from the Lightroom catalog and so there is also no option to delete it from disk.

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