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GreenBeanPhotography
GreenBeanPhotography
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September 23, 2018
Question

Delete photos from Lightroom CC

  • September 23, 2018
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I have all my photos on an external hard drive.  I added a few to Lightroom CC to edit them.  After editing the ones I want to keep, I saved those back to my external hard drive.  I now have several photos which were edited and several that were not still in Lightroom CC.  I closed the program, opened it later and all of the photos area still there.

I do not want any of my photos in the Lightroom CC.  I want to delete them all.  I want to keep what I have edited and saved in my external hard drive.  Later I will delete all of the unedited photos from my external hard drive AFTER I have edited what I want to keep and put them in another external hard drive file.  I don't want all the extra photos saved!  Just what I want to keep.

So my question is how do I delete all of the photos I have imported in to Lightroom CC?  I need step by step instructions.

Thanks in advance

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    MelissaLA88
    Participating Frequently
    September 24, 2018

    Hi, GreenBreanPhotography! When in Lightroom CC, make sure you have the All Photos tab selected on the left side right under My Photos. You can then use a keyboard shortcut Command+A/Control+A to select all photos. You can then right click anywhere within the area where your photos are being displayed and Delete Photos. Do be sure that you saved them first! Hope that helps

    Mohit Goyal
    Community Manager
    Mohit GoyalCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    September 24, 2018

    Hi GreenBeanPhotography,

    If you are looking to delete all the imported images in Lightroom CC then, Open Lightroom CC > Go to All Photos > Ctrl+A/CMD+A (this step will select all the images you have in Lightroom CC) > Go to Edit and select delete.

    You can also choose some of the images and delete them from Lightroom CC as well. For that you can select the images and perform the same steps.

    Note: Once you delete images from the Lightroom CC you won't be able to retrieve them again. So make sure you save your images first and then delete.

    Regards,

    Mohit

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