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CLPSRQ
Inspiring
April 14, 2023
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What is "cleanup" folder in the web gallery menu?

  • April 14, 2023
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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?

 

 

Correct answer PeterB217095629

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

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ColinMcD
Inspiring
November 18, 2024

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.

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    OzQE37593454gezc
    Participant
    November 20, 2024

    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

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      pp001887
      Participating Frequently
      November 20, 2024

      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. 

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      PeterB217095629Community ManagerCorrect answer
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      April 14, 2023

      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

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      michaels38808131
      Participant
      January 13, 2025

      This is an old thread but it does appear to be something that is still being considered.  Some feedback from me. In general, I actually found it mostly pretty useful. But a couple of changes would make it dramatically more useful.

       

      1) It would be nice to be able to see the immediate context of the photo (i.e. photos taken around the same minute). The reason here is that I often want to keep a blurry or out of context photo if it is the only photo I have of something unique or important (as a jog to my memory more than anything), for example a particular species of monkey in the rainforest. Lack of this meant I wasn't confident deleting some blurry pictures from vacations because I didn't always know if it was the only picture of that species I had.

       

      2) It would be nice to be able to mark a picture as "don't include in cleanup". I have Lightroom on my phone, and it auto-uploads photos, so my Lightroom catalogue gets polluted with random receipts, documents, etc. But sometimes I take a picture of a restaurant menu or something that I want to keep in Lightroom, either because its scenic, or just as a remembrance of a trip. So I don't want to exclude all documents, but I do want to be able to exclude certain items.

      (This would also help with item #1 above, as I could just exclude rare things)

       

      3) The cleanup folder doesn't do great with underwater pictures. I think the heavy blue/green tint makes it think things are more out of focus than they really are. In general it seems pretty solid at only picking "bad" photos, but I found a bunch of examples of decent underwater photos that got included in cleanup.

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        PeterB217095629Community Manager
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        January 14, 2025

        Thanks for the feedback!  You should be able to remove any items from Cleanup that you want to keep and they will not show up again.  Let me know if you are looking for something else.  For the underwater pictures, you can send a direct report from with the app and include your photos if you are willing to share them with our team.  If not, this is at least an area we can review when updating our logic, so thanks.  Also, for #1, completely agree that would be useful -- we will consider that for the future.

         

        -Peter

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