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Discarding Images in Lr is a PIA

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
September 30, 2018
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To me it is so inefficient that I pull images from my cards to their final folder using Breeze Browser Pro, nothing is imported, no extra copies are made and squirreled away somewhere, then I can quickly (one click) discard the images I do not want. Then I move the good images into Lr. Lr wants to make extra copies and put them in other folders and then make thumbnails. No, no, no.

Once I have the images in Lr it is a pain in the posterior to delete images. I have to click on two different buttons, and navigate to each for each image. Adobe is saying, like a helicopter mom, geeze do you realllllly want to throw that away, really? I am no longer in fifth grade, do not ask me twice Adobe, the images are still on the card, in the one in a million times I make a mistake if I have to I can get them there. In Breeze Browser I can delete with one click. I may delete hundreds of images in one session. Lr is horrible, it costs me time, time is money. And it is irritating, every time I click it irritates me.

I do not see a way for me to change that default to one click to delete from the hard drive, which is a set up with a 1990s mindset. If I am missing something tell me how to do that.

So Adobe, let me set the default for deletion such that I do not have to click on two buttons to delete. Leave the standard to be clicking on two if you think you must, just give me a way around it. Images are still on the card, and they are even still on the card after formatting. Gone are the days where we made thirty six images a day, make it easier to get rid of the cast offs. You default behavior belongs in the '90s.

And do not tell me to submit a feature request, if Adobe's engineers are not reading these posts we are doomed.

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cmgap

Community Expert

CMD + OPT + Shift + Delete will delete images without the safeguard of asking before deleting. You can't undo this and not recommended however it is a quick way to remove images.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

For the Brave there is "Splat Delete"

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

John Blaustein

Inspiring

FYI....

Alt+Del will remove the image from your catalog. The so called "Splat Delete" (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Del) will remove the image from the catalog and delete it from disk.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

https://forums.adobe.com/people/John+Blaustein wrote
FYI....
Alt+Del will remove the image from your catalog. The so called "Splat Delete" (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Del) will remove the image from the catalog and delete it from disk.

Yes I know! Dangerous!!!

The OP asked- "to delete from the hard drive,"

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

johnrellis

Legend

And do not tell me to submit a feature request, if Adobe's engineers are not reading these posts we are doomed.

For better or worse, Adobe has two forums: this forum, which is primarily user-to-user, and the official Adobe feedback forum, where they want all bugs and product feedback posted. Adobe product developers read every post in the feedback forum and sometimes reply, and the feedback definitely influences them. But product developers are rarely seen in this forum.

See this FAQ from the top of the Overview page of this forum: Which forum should I post to? (Feedback vs Forums)

Bob Somrak

Legend

1. If Lightroom is making extra copies it is because you told it to do that during import. Look at your import options.

2. You don't delete EVERY photo individually, you mark them as rejected and then delete the rejected in one step.

There is nothing to fix by Adobe.

M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB

BartonGarrett256Author

Inspiring

Lr makes preview copies, they are extra, I know how to set up Import.

I do not want to Mark as Rejected and delete in one step, and actually that would be TWO steps, if you are going to trot out the all caps. I want to look at one image and delete it as a single event. The way you suggest is asking for trouble, in my opinion.

Now I have to click Delete then tab to Delete from Disk, then click it, and I may do this hundreds of times a session on big projects. Lr is a tool, for my use it is inefficient. I bill clients by the hour.

I want the option of Delete from Disk to be the default, not Remove from Lighroom. It is an easy thing to fix. It can stay the same for unsophisticated users, just give us that option in Preferences Adobe.

Bob, you and I will just have to disagree, I do think there is "something to fix by Adobe"

ssprengel

Inspiring

If you like things disappearing at the moment of decision with one keystroke or click, set your filter to show only non-rejected photos (Flagged and Unflagged, but not Rejected) and they will disappear as you reject them, then think of delete-rejected-photos as empty-recycle-bin that you do one time at the end, not once per photo.