Skip to main content
james_dh
james_dh
Participating Frequently
November 30, 2022
Question

Any way to remove all photos that are in one album but NOT in another album?

  • November 30, 2022
  • 1 reply
  • 1492 views

I'm trying to do some cleanup of 1000's of photos that I no longer need. Basically I copied the same lengthy set of timelapse photos to two seperate albums, one that is an "All" album, and the other that is "Curated". What I had been doing was deleting unwanted photos from the "Curated" album, but kept them in the "All" album in case I made need them again. However, now I've got 1000's of photos that I know I won't need and cannot find any easy way of removing them permanently from my library without also deleting the photos that are in my "Curated" album. 

 

There does not appear to be any way to do this. That seems crazy for what is essentially a photo management/organization tool. The only possible way I can think of is to export all of the raw images from my Curated album, permanently delete the All album (which will also delete all the photos in the Curated album), and then reimport all the exported images back into the Curated album. But that's literally 10's of 1000's of photos totaling 100's of GB's that would need to be resynced to the cloud. 

 

I find it hard to believe their UI is this limited. Am I insane?

This topic has been closed for replies.

1 reply

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
November 30, 2022

This looks like it works:

  1. Go to "All" Album
  2. Select all
  3. Apply Keyword "To Delete"
  4. Go to "Curated" Album 
  5. Select All
  6. Remove Keyword "To Delete" by clicking on it in the Tag panel
  7. Go back to "All"
  8. Search for "Keyword: To Delete"
  9. Select All
  10. Delete

    Unless I am misunderstanding your need...

 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
    james_dh
    james_dhAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    November 30, 2022

    That did actually do the trick. Thank you Rikk!

      james_dh
      james_dhAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      November 30, 2022

      Unfortunately after doing this, I'm in a perpetual "Syncing" state, w/ Lightroom consuming 200%+ of my CPU on a MacBook Pro M1 Max, and with zero network traffic. I don't know what it is trying to sync since I only deleted files and didn't change any, but it doesn't seem to be actually making any progress given the constantly pegged CPU cores and complete lack of network traffic. I've tried restarting it twice now, but it just goes straight back into the same "Syncing Items" state. It's not even able to tell me how many items are syncing which I've usually seen in the past. 

      Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
      Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices