How do I use Lightroom to cull images and then delete the unwanted files from my iPads

[martin27655030bl8q]

I'm struggling to figure out how to use Lightroom on my iPad to pick out the images that I want, then delete the images I do not want from files on the iPad.

I can delete them from Lightroom and Lightroom albums. But how do I delete them

from the folder on my iPad? 

[JohanElzenga]

Lightroom can directly access the iPad 'Photos' and delete images from there if you tap on 'Device' at the bottom left. Then tap the three dots in the upper right corner to get to "Select". Once you have selected one or more images, you will see a trash button at the bottom right that you can use to delete the images from Photos.

[martin27655030bl8q]

Looking to deleat raw files that are stored in the files "on my iPad".

I know how to import them in to Lightroom. I can do the culling there, but then how do I erase the raw files from the iPad that I do not want? I can erase them from an Lightroom album, but I want to erase the raw files in "on my iPad"

How do I do that?

[JohanElzenga]

To delete imported photos from Lightroom, delete them from 'All Photos'. "On my iPad" is something in the iOS Files app, not in Lightroom for iPad.

[martin27655030bl8q]

That is exactly the problem. I have to go back to each and every image in the files app, find the image, make sure it's the right one and then deleat it. A major painif you are starting to have a lot of images.

On my Mac I have bridge to do this work on on the iPad I have ??? Nothing? Is there a bridge like app that I can use for culling images for the iPad?

[JohanElzenga]

I don't think there is, but I am not sure I understand your problem. Where are your images? In Lightroom for iPad or somewhere else? If somewhere else, then why don't you import them all in Lightroom and delete them all from that somewhere else location? The Files app can select and then delete multiple files, just like Lightroom can.

[martin27655030bl8q]

First off thank you Johan for helping me work through this challenge.

the workflow I would like to have is:

1 - import all images (raw files) from an SD to my iPad locally in a folder in "on my iPad"

2 - import the files in "on my iPad" to a Lightroom album

3 - select the images I want to work on and the images I do not want

4 - deleat the images I do not want to work on from the Lightroom album AND from the "on my iPad" folder

The challage I have is that I do not think Lightroom can deleat the files on my iPad but only the files in my album. And I do not know of a way to see in files on my iPad the selection I did in Lightroom. So there is no batch method for me to deleat the images in files based on my selection in Lightroom.
This really becomes cumbersome when you have a lot of images to discard.

[JohanElzenga]

If you import an image into Lightroom, it will be copied into Lightroom. That means you can delete all the images in the 'on my iPad' folder, because they are copies of the images in Lightroom. Then cull the images in Lightroom and delete those you don't want. By the way: it should be possible to import the images directly from the SD card into Lightroom. No need to add this extra step.

[martin27655030bl8q]

Yep totally get what you are suggesting, and it makes sense. But the kicker is I have years of photography in a file folder structure where I keep my files. I would like to retain that workflow and structure working on an iPad as well. So it is all organized (and backed up) in the same way.

Is there a way to do what you suggest and then batch download an entire album of the original raw files in to a folder on my iPad? That way I could still get them in to my file folder structure.

[martin27655030bl8q]

Clarification: download an entire album from Lightroom of the original raw files to a folder on my iPad...

thanks

[JohanElzenga]

You can export images 'as original', but downloading/exporting original raw files means you'll export them unedited. If that is what you want because it's just for backup purposes, then this would be the way to do it.