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How to delete a copy from within a collection?

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May 30, 2021
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Hi guys,

I very often create one or more copies when adjusting an image to consider several variations before deciding. But then to delete the now useless copies I leave the collection and go to All Photographs to do so - or else copies, if deleted from within the collection itself, will remain in my library.

Am I missing something? Is there a more elegant way to delete copies from within a colletion?

Thanks a lot.

Raphael

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Mejor respuesta de JohanElzenga

Yes, I did remember it correctly. If you are in a collection, you can remove a photo (or a virtual copy) from the catalog by choosing 'Photo - Remove Photo from Catalog', or pressing Option-Delete (Alt-Delete on Windows). That's a lot less dangerous than using 'Splat Delete', because if you do this with a real photo, that photo does not get deleted from disk.

JohanElzenga

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Yes, I did remember it correctly. If you are in a collection, you can remove a photo (or a virtual copy) from the catalog by choosing 'Photo - Remove Photo from Catalog', or pressing Option-Delete (Alt-Delete on Windows). That's a lot less dangerous than using 'Splat Delete', because if you do this with a real photo, that photo does not get deleted from disk.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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raphaels28255986Autor

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Johan,

When you say the image does not get deleted from disk, where does it go and how can it be retrieved?

Thanks a lot.

JohanElzenga

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Thank you Johan.

The only 2 places any of my images has ever been in is my memory card - but of course it's been deleted from there since, and my Library, from which I accidentally deleted it.

So where do you suggest I look for it in order to re-import it into my library?

Thanks a lot.

What do you mean with 'Library'? The module with that name in Lightroom? Lightroom is like an address book. It does not store the actual images inside its catalog, but keeps information ('meta data') about those images in the catalog. Just like you write down the address details of your friends in your address book. The actual images are stored somewhere on your hard disk. You determine where that is in the Destination tab of the Import dialog, so I can't tell you where you stored your images.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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dj_paige

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Virtual copies can be deleted from within a collection. Just use the "Splat Delete" Alt-Ctrl-Shift-DEL.

CAUTION: No warning dialog appears to make you confirm that you really want to delete this photo. Once you do this, the photo is gone, and Ctrl-Z (Undo) doesn't help. Use at your own risk.

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raphaels28255986Autor

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Thanks dj_paige.

I don't have Alt on a Mac 🙂 - and I'm only deleting a copy ... that disappears the way I do it now anyway ...

JohanElzenga

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You do have Alt on your Mac. It's officially called 'Option' on a Mac, but on most keyboards the letters Alt are on that key too. CTRL should be replaced by Cmd on a Mac however, so it is Cmd-Option-Shift-Delete.

I am typing this on my iPad so I can't check, but I seem to recall that there is a safer way of removing images from the catalog when you are in a collection. That should have been added fairly recently. For virtual copies that is all you need to do, because they don't exist outside the catalog anyway. I'm not sure if I remember this correctly, but it's worth to check the menus.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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