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New Participant
June 10, 2023
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Delete does not Delete

  • June 10, 2023
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Like others have said a million times, posted a million times, and I've gone through a half dozen posts with no solution: pressing the "delete button" does not delete the photo from the library or disk. The photo is greyed out, is not given a rejected flag, etc. I am not syncing to the cloud.

 

I am on windows with Lightroom (not classic)

 

I culled 1600 photos for 3 hours and exported the remainder and everything was exported to the file.

 

Hoping for some help.

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New Participant
June 11, 2023

im going through the same thing , im still trying to figure out how im paying for the creative cloud pla with photoshop and lightroom on it and it keep trying to make m e pay for more things that is suppose to be in the creative package plan .

Jim Wilde
Inspiring
June 11, 2023
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I am not syncing to the cloud.


By @Harrison23952490df95

 

That might explain the problem. When you delete images from any Lightroom client app, that file has to be stored in the Deleted Album folder in the cloud (to allow it to be restored if needed within the 60-day grace period from any of the various Lightroom client apps that the user might wish to use). If you have syncing paused, the Lightroom desktop app cannot upload the deleted image so perhaps it deals with that scenario by simply greying it out, pending a successful upload.

New Participant
June 12, 2023

I turned syncing back on and the problem persists.

Jim Wilde
Inspiring
June 12, 2023

Has everything finished syncing? If you've had syncing paused, then presumably there would be a lot of images in your local library (including the deleted images) which now have to upload to the cloud. That's not typically a fast process.