No option for 'delete from disk' in Lightroom (not LR classic)

[willa24107183]

I have just been informed through an online chat with Adobe that the delete from disk option which was so useful for removing 'rejected' photos from my harddrive in LR Classic is not available in LR (CC). This means that I will have to keep track of the bad photos and delete them manually from my harddrive. This delete from disk feature is very useful for me (and I presume many others) and so if it could be added to LR that would be amazing!

Thanks

[Jim Wilde · Accepted solution]

That may just be a communication problem. Remember that Lightroom's images are stored in the cloud, so when you delete an image from Lightroom there's nothing on a local disk that you need to be concerned about. When you delete an image from the cloud it's not immediately deleted, but is instead moved into the "Deleted" album where it remains available to "restore" for up to 60 days. At the end of that 60 day period (or earlier if the user elects to permanently delete the image before the 60-day period has expired), the image is removed completely from Lightroom and so Adobe would then handle the physical deletion from the cloud server. If Lightroom had also stored a local copy of the image on a hard drive, that would be automatically deleted from that local hard drive by Lightroom when the cloud-based original was removed from the "Deleted" album.