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June 2, 2024
Question

Photo Delete inconsistancies in LRC Windows

  • June 2, 2024
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Issue:

  LRC 13.3

  Windows 11

 

Steps to reproduce:

1.  In library or Development module with SINGLE picture in main window

2. Select multiple photos from the roll

3. press delete

4. click through the dialogs

Result: only 1 photo is deleted

Main window moves to next photo in selected set

 

1.  In library or Development module with SINGLE picture in main window

2. Select multiple photos from the roll

3. right click on photos, remove

4. click through the dialogs

Result:  all selected files are deleted

 

1.  In library or Development module with SINGLE picture in main window

2. Select photo (from the roll)

3. press delete

4. click through the dialogs

Result:  photo is deleted

photo in window remains on deleted photo -- interaction causes errors

 

1.  In library module with MULTIPLE pictures in main window

2. Select multiple photos from the roll

3. right click on photos, remove

4. click through the dialogs

Result:  all selected files are deleted

 

All senarios should behave the same (as in right-click remove)

 

Caveat:  photos are on network drive

 

 

 

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2 replies

Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 2, 2024

There's some logic to this, so it's not considered a bug... when right-clicking on photos or viewing them in the Grid, you can clearly see that multiple photos are selected, so it deletes them all. When you're looking at a single photo and using a keyboard shortcut, Lightroom can't be sure that you know that you have more than 1 selected, so it only deletes the one. 

 

Stacks could be argued either way, so I agree that a dialog asking whether to delete the whole stack or just unstack them could be useful. 

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Known Participant
June 2, 2024

Followup:   Stacked photos behave as multiple photos.  I have to unstack them and select all and delete with right-click.

All photos in a stack should be delete in one command. 

I can think of use cases against this, so there should be an option