Remove over 1000 photos in Lightroom How To

[Alyssa23868072ueuz]

Can someone explain why lightroom will only let me remove up to 1000 photos at once? I'd like to just select all my weddings from these past months and get rid of them on Lightroom. If I select more than 1000 it won't remove them, so it makes the process annoyly time consuming. Or is there a way I don't know about??

[CMass]

Hey @Alyssa23868072ueuz, 

That is a great question! I just wanted to confirm when you say remove, you mean delete/remove from your cloud backup, correct?

^CM

[Alyssa23868072ueuz]

HI - I don't use Cloud backup, just my desktop and I save everything on an external harddrive. So, is there a different way to go about it?

[Alyssa23868072ueuz]

I have Adobe Lightroom Classic 13.0.1

[CMass]

@Alyssa23868072ueuz, 

I’m very sorry for the delay in responding, and thank you for confirming that you’re using Lightroom Classic. There’s no limit in Lightroom Classic, but Lightroom (the cloud-based version) does have one. It also looks like you’re on an older version—the latest is 14.5.1. Please try updating to see if that resolves the issue. If it doesn’t, could you share a short video of what you’re seeing or let us know if any error messages appear? That will help us better understand what’s going on.

^CM

[Alyssa23868072ueuz]

Hi - I updated to the latest version and it still won't remove more than 1000 photos from the Lightroom. Am I doing this wrong? Uploaded 2 different photos.

[Alyssa23868072ueuz · Accepted solution]

Whoops, nevermind. Got it to work now! It still will delete them if I go over 1000, just not restore them if I need.

[KR Seals]

The error message said the files in question were "Missing". Did you delete them separately in the operating system?

When file are missing from a Lightroom Classic folder, just right click on the folder and choose "Synchronize Folder". Lightroom Classic will then remove all references to the missing files.