Recover a file right after deletion in lightroom CC

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February 11, 2018
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Hello,

I just started photography and I am currently trying Lightroom CC as RAW Image developement tool.

I just tried to reorganize my folders and albums, and accidentally deleted one reworked photo from disk instead of from album. I tried mashing up Ctrl+Z but it is not worthing. Could it be there is no way to recover a deleted picture even in the same session? That would be a real bummer (and probably means Lightroom is not a tool for me, sonce it always happen to misclick something and I know it for every other software I use that all actions within a session are reversible (things become irreversible as soon as the software closes). I tried to look for it online but the Adobe cloud already deleted the picture. I can still reimport the RAW image since I still have it on my camera but I will have to redo the modification (which will last forever since I am just beginning... And also mean that I can not rely on the tool since a simple button press is irreversible).

My Lighgtroom session is still open, so please let me know if I can undo the delete action.

Thanks!

EDIT: Recovering the modifications done to the photo alone would actually help.

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Correct answer Just Shoot Me

With both Windows and Mac OS X all deleted files, or folders, go into the recycling bin, Trash on the Mac, and can be restored from there.

But any adjustment you made will be gone. LR delete those as soon as you remove the image from the catalog.

Just Shoot MeCorrect answer

Legend

With both Windows and Mac OS X all deleted files, or folders, go into the recycling bin, Trash on the Mac, and can be restored from there.

But any adjustment you made will be gone. LR delete those as soon as you remove the image from the catalog.

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NaityAuthor

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Ok, thanks for the answer.

It is weird the file was not in my bin though. But I do not understand the reason while the file adjustments are defnintively lost. Having an option to "never delete them from hard drive" especially that those are not heavy files would be appreciated. And I really think Adobe should rethink their "deleting policy" and make deletion reversible (aka add "recently removed" menu) weither by having files stored in a cache until the application closes or by storing the files + modification in the cloud 24h more after they are deleted to give the oportunity to retrieve them and undo as.

As it is, I don't think I'll be able to adopt the product, which is sad as I really like the interface and the possibility offered by it...

Thanks Just Shoot Me

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

WobertC wrote
My Catalog Settings are set to backup "Every time Lightroom Exits". If I have not done any editing work while Lightroom was open I can simply cancel the backup by clicking the [Skip] button. But I frequently make a backup, and delete old versions when they accumulate too many.

That would be excellent. This backup everytime LR exits is exactly what I was asking for in the forst post.

However I do not seem to find it in my Lightroom (I might be blind, but I was looking for the menu and the options from JoeKostoss ). Are we using the same version of the tool? Is it unavailable in the trial version?

My options look like the following:

Perhaps we should have confirmed very early your Lightroom version.

Your screen-clips are from Lightroom-CC. You are posting in the Lightroom-CLASSIC forum, so our replies have been referring to "Classic"

I will have to leave it to others to move you to the "Lr-CC" forum, or maybe they have an answer for you. (I have not yet used "Lr-CC").

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.4.1, Photoshop 27.8, ACR 18.4, Lightroom 9.4, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

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