Issues with Deleting

Report · Nov 19, 2018

I'm having issues with the constant changes with Lightroom CC. For a while, I had to delete photos by selecting all the photos I wanted to delete, hitting command+delete, and then it would require me to click "Delete Photo" to verify that I wanted to delete the photo.

Then it switched to simply hitting "Delete" on my keyboard to remove a photo(s); whether I had them all selected or a single photo selected. <-- IDEAL

Now, I it's all the way back to only being able to delete one photo at a time and it requires verification by selecting "okay". This is terrible when I'm processing thousands of photos and needing to delete them in batches.

Is there any way to switch it back to the ideal way it was about a month ago?

Cheers,

Patrick Skinner

Report · Nov 20, 2018

I'm not aware that there has been any change in the way deletions are handled, i.e. they always require a user confirmation, and I doubt that will ever change.

The only thing I can imagine that you were experiencing is that you were using the delete key from within a selected album, not from within All Photos. Pressing delete in that situation triggers the "Remove from Album" procedure, i.e. the images remain in All Photos but are removed from the selected album. The confirmation dialog for that process has a "Don't Show Again" option, so that if you had previously selected that option then subsequent removals from any selected album would simply happen without any confirmation dialog. Is that possibly what you were seeing?