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How to remove photo from catalog programmatically

New Here ,
Dec 20, 2019 Dec 20, 2019

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Hello,

I am able to add a photo by using catalog:addPhoto( path, stackWithPhoto, position )

 

I'd like to remove the photo once my operation is done. Or I'd like to completely remove the LrFolder from the Catalog. 

 

Is there any way to do this? I didn't find a way in the SDK. 

 

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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LEGEND , Dec 21, 2019 Dec 21, 2019

Unfortunately, the SDK doesn't provide methods for removing photos or folders.  I've always guessed that this was deliberate -- Adobe wanted to protect users from poorly written plugins.

 

As a klutzy workaround, one of my plugins takes this approach: When it's finished with an imported photo, it deletes the underlying file from disk and moves the LrPhoto into a special collection called "OK To Delete".  Then the user can periodically delete that collection.

 

It's very unlikely at this point la

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Dec 21, 2019 Dec 21, 2019

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Unfortunately, the SDK doesn't provide methods for removing photos or folders.  I've always guessed that this was deliberate -- Adobe wanted to protect users from poorly written plugins.

 

As a klutzy workaround, one of my plugins takes this approach: When it's finished with an imported photo, it deletes the underlying file from disk and moves the LrPhoto into a special collection called "OK To Delete".  Then the user can periodically delete that collection.

 

It's very unlikely at this point late in LR Classic's life that Adobe would ever add a delete method to LrPhoto.

 

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New Here ,
Dec 23, 2019 Dec 23, 2019

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@johnrellis thank you so much for your answer. IMO, SDK, at least, should allow removing photos which have been added by catalog:addPhoto but before this, there are lots of things to fix 

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 16, 2021 Dec 16, 2021

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@grcn you can delete files from the catelogue as well as from the directory folder. 

1) For remove selected files from the actiev catalogue, use photo:addOrRemoveFromTargetCollection() function. 

Below is the example to delete the files from the active catalogue.

 

local LrApplication = import "LrApplication"
local catalog = LrApplication.activeCatalog()
local photos = catalog:getTargetPhotos()
for p, photo in ipairs(photos ) do
    photo:addOrRemoveFromTargetCollection()
end

 

2) Remove files from the targeted directory folder. 

 

LrFileUtils.delete( path )Immediately deletes the file or directory at a given path. If the path refers to a directory, all of the contents are deleted. Use with care; in most cases, moveToTrash() is preferred.

First supported in version 1.3 of the Lightroom SDK.

Parameters

1. path (string) The path.

Return value

(Boolean) True on success. On failure, can return a second parameter indicating the reason.

 

 

Here is the example how you can delete folder from the targeted path.

 

local LrFileUtils = import("LrFileUtils")
local exportPath = LrPathUtils.child(_PLUGIN.path, "Exported Photos")
local filePath = assert(exportPath .. "\\folderName\\")
LrFileUtils.delete(filePath)

 

I thing this will help a lot.

Thank you!

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LEGEND ,
Dec 17, 2021 Dec 17, 2021

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"For remove selected files from the active catalogue, use photo: addOrRemoveFromTargetCollection() function."

 

Unfortunately, that just adds or removes the photo from the target collection, not from the catalog itself.

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