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_MIchael_J_Howard_
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November 23, 2007
Answered

Lightroom WONT delete photos from disk

  • November 23, 2007
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I understand the diffrencce between deleting a photo from LR verses completely deleting from the disk.

However when I try to "delete a photo from disk" through light room it remains on my disk no matter what i do.

I do click the option "delete from disk" verses "remove" from LR

any ideas on what is happening here?
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      Correct answer _David_Jacobs_
      Yes, I was tagging photos and had selected a collection with a specific tag. When I go back to folders all is well. Thank you.

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      jbm007
      Community Expert
      jbm007Community Expert
      Community Expert
      October 11, 2008
      Wolf depending on where you have your catalog Vista may require higher permissions to delete certain files and or folders. This happens more often then not when someone has folders and files in their "User" folder.

      You can also right click the icon and select properties have the icon "default" load " run as administrator" each time.

      Jim
      Wolf Eilers
      Wolf Eilers
      Inspiring
      October 10, 2008
      >... I've found the solution for this issue on Vista. You need to run Lightroom under the administrator to be able to perform delete from disk.

      Although I do not use Vista I find this very difficult to believe.
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      _Shawano_
      Participant
      October 9, 2008
      Hi everybody... I've found the solution for this issue on Vista. You need to run Lightroom under the administrator to be able to perform delete from disk. To do so go in Start/programs and right click on adobe Lightroom and then select: run as administrator. Then select the all files in the left pane of the library. Under the Photo menu just select: delete rejected photos. Tadan!

      Worked for me... hope this can help all of you.
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      JohnWNolan
      Participant
      July 1, 2011

      Fyi,

      I encountered this problem out of the blue today, and this solution worked for me:  Start>Right click on LR3>run as adminstratror.  Running PC Vista 64.

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      bjamisonf
      Participant
      October 2, 2008
      I'm also having the same problem. I use Vista Home and Lightroom 2.1. My Lightroom Catalog is located in my "My Pictures" folder. Like the others, I can delete the file from the catalog but cannot delete the file from the disk even though the file is marked as rejected. In the Library Module, Grid View, when I click "Photo" from the drop-down menu, the "Delete Rejected Photo" is grayed out. Today is the first day I noticed it. I've never had this problem before.
      Randy Hufford
      Community Expert
      Randy HuffordCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 14, 2021

      Are you guys talking about Lightroom or Lightroom Classic?

       

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      DBarman
      Participating Frequently
      June 5, 2008
      To delete a picture, I believe that you have to be in Library mode and have the folder that the picture resides in hilighted in the left pane. Oops - it seems that isn't the issue here, as you are given the "delete from disk" option. Nevertheless, I stumbled early on, on why I would not sometimes get the "delete from disk" option.
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      _Travis_Sween_
      Participant
      June 4, 2008
      looked like the folder was "read only" .. anyways, hitting the delete key does the trick .. thanks for the tips
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      Anonymous
      June 2, 2008
      Folder is read only/locked?

      You're not in a folder view?
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      _Travis_Sween_
      Participant
      June 2, 2008
      .. version 1.4.1 has been installed -- same issue

      thx
      Travis
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      Anonymous
      June 2, 2008
      Travis,
      LR Version 1.4 was withdrawn by Adobe a few days after its release due to several serious bugs.
      Its replacement update version 1.4.1 should be installed if you have not already done so.
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      _Travis_Sween_
      Participant
      June 2, 2008
      I am having the same issue with version 1.4 of LR (vista biz edition) -- no option to physically delete the photo.

      any answers for this one yet ?
      thx
      Travis
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