What is "cleanup" folder in the web gallery menu?

[CLPSRQ]

All,

I can't figure out what the cleanup folder means in Lightroom web?  It is shown under my all photos menu when you open the carrot.  I have over 1k photos in this folder and I don't know why they are there or what to do with these images.  I can't find the definition anywhere.  Does anyone know what this folder was created for?

[PeterB2 · Accepted solution]

This is a Tech Preview-only feature in Lightroom Web that suggest a set of photos from your account that could be considered for removal for either quality or usefulness reasons.  Would be great to get any additional feedback on whether you find this feature valuable and if there are suggested improvements.

-Peter

[CLPSRQ]

Thanks Peter, from the photos that are in the folder the context makes sense.  If such a folder like this is part of the software it would be great to be able to set the parameters vs just having them appear.  For example, have it look for duplicates, focus issues, metadata conflicts etc.  The shotgun approach seems to be too generic and if it allowed for specifications then it would be useful. 

-Brian

[PeterB2]

Thanks for the feedback --  we will definitely consider as we move this feature forward.

-Peter

[brianc36133362]

It would be very useful to know _why_ a photo is in that collection--are they dupes? Does the AI just think them misfocused or misexposed? Some kind of tagging that indicated what the criterion/a was would be really helpful in knowing whether it's actually safe to delete the photo. 

[pp001887]

Its not useful to me in its current form.  I've been in the middle of a major family house move, including copying documents, and suggesting that receipts or other docs be removed is the exact opposite of what I want.  What would be useful would be a folder/collection that explicitly collected all the images that appear to be documents. 

The folder also contained a set of photos of furniture that we are donating to charity. I agree that these images are aesthetically useless, but they have important family and tax considerations. 

This folder also contained a lot of intentional camera motion images, and it contained the worst-exposed images in some exposure bracketing sequences.

Flagging these images is counterproductive for me.

[KostFan2]

Thank you for posting about this feature. Do you have any information you can post that describes it in more detail?  You mention: “considered for removal for either quality or usefulness reasons.”   As mentioned above, it would be useful if a tag was applied for possible duplicates.

Regarding duplicates, the interface should also include information on whether the image is in an Album.  The reason why is as follows:

If an image (Image A) was in an album and the copy (Image B) was not in an album.  It is likely the customer would want to delete the copy (Image B) that was not in an album.  If there is no album identifier then the Customer may delete the image that is in an album and, thereby, mess up the album.  This is particularly important if this is a shared album

[PeterB2]

Thanks for the continued interest.  Since this feature is still in Tech Preview, we are using it as an opportunity to learn both what you all want and how to best present it.  Pretty clear here that we need to present this feature more clearly at the point we officially launch it.

To answer your question more directly, the current feature does not support duplicate detection.  We have heard clearly that this is a desired capability.  Appreciate your thoughts on what would be important for a duplicate detection solution.

What the feature currently attempts to do is identify photos that are more likely to not be of long term value to keep.  That can be photos with bad blur, photos of receipts, or just complete misfires.  If there are cases that you feel we are missing (other than duplicates), it would be great to hear more.

-Peter

[KostFan2]

Peter:

Thank you for providing this opportunity for the community to provide input for the feature.

Also, by you providing more details and clarification, you avoid customers complaining about Abobe not meeting their expectations.  Your clearly stating that this tool will not have duplicate detection is a big help.

One suggestion.  It would be nice to have an icon appear if an image had Content Credentials” applied. I know customers have to go to “Verify” to see the credentials. However, it would be nice if there was an icon that would appear to designate the image has such credentials.

[ColinMcD]

I'm not sure if you are still requesting feedback, as this is quite an old thread, however, I only spotted the cleanup folder today.

I keep a large number (over 5000) documents related to genaealogy, and it appears that the software identifies all of these as requiring clean-up. From the other posts I'm assuming that they resemble receipts (see attached image).

As it stands, this feature would not be welcomed by me.

[OzQE37593454gezc]

Thank you for the feedback, very helpful to hear about your photo needs.  I think what you might need is a way to not include documents in the Cleanup results.  Let me know if you think this could work.

-Peter

[pp001887]

I like being able to exclude files that appear to be docs--which should be easy to ID.  Coincidentally, I just inherited a stack of genealogy-related material, including photos of documents.  

Way back in the day, I used to use a desktop mgr called PaperPort (I still have a few propietary .MAX bitmaps lurking around).  LrC actually isn't so far away from it in its ability help track scanned docs. 

[ColinMcD]

I believe that would work, but it would depend on how it was implemented. Selection by Folder (and subsequent sub-folders) would be a requirement for me. I assume others might need individual image selection.