Deleted greyed out photos keep restoring

Report · May 23, 2023

Hello! I have found a few answers regarding the issue with deleted photos being greyed out, and have gotten into a rythm of frequently restarting my computer and LR app to get around the issue. But I am going insane from the fact that LR rather than deleting the greyed out photos keeps restoring them. My internet is not stellar, and I know that I should probably just migrate the entire thing to LR Classic, but right now I'm in a position where I just need to delete dud photos to get them out of the system so I can cancel my 1TB sub. (I'm barely two gigs away from my goal.) It's just so frustrating that I'm only allowed to delete 10-15 photos before I need to restart everything and wait for the sync. Is there any way to instruct LR to not restore but to just delete those greyed out photos?

Report · Jun 01, 2023

Hey @anna holms64279884. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I'll help you figure this out.

Deleted images from Lightroom are not permanently deleted. Images go to the deleted section and stay there for 60 days unless you permanently delete them.

Please review and ensure that you wish to delete these images. If they are permanently deleted, it is irreversible.

You can pause the sync temporarily & then delete images & then enable sync again. If this does not help, log on to Lightroom Web (https://lightroom.adobe.com) to delete photos on the Lightroom Web and let us know the results.

Thanks,

Sameer K