Comments on: Lightroom in 60-Seconds: Getting Rid of Bad Photos Fast!

By: Jeanette

Jeanette — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 22:44:41 +0000

Does this trick with with videos?? I follow this process but found the videos still on the disk drive.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:30:00 +0000

Use the X key with capitals on, and you’ll benefit from the auto-advance feature as well.

By: Bruce Smith

Bruce Smith — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:24:08 +0000

What happened to the dialog box that asks you if you want to “Delete from Disk” or just “Remove” from your catalog?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:34:08 +0000

Or, in the grid view in Library tab, in the Library Filter bar at the top of the thumbnails section, click on Attribute, then click on the black “rejected” flag symbol. All your rejects will appear. Then click on Backspace on your keyboard, and a window pops up asking if you want to only remove them from Lightroom, or remove them and delete them from the disk, or cancel.
As my hard drive is filling up, I want to get rid of them right away. You still get one more chance if you have made a mistake- they will still be in the trash bin on your desktop until you empty that.

By: Rick Grant

Rick Grant — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:08:55 +0000

I quite like your “Lightroom in 60 Seconds” series.

I look forward to each installment.

But I must say that I miss Adobe’s Benjamin Warde and his Lightroom Coffee Break videos. His odd deadpan delivery somehow really works well in the videos which are wonderful examples of stripped down and effective expository writing. I wonder what happened to his series?

Long may your 60 Seconds series run. It is very well done and useful.

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:49:38 +0000

In reply to Eric Vaandering. Hi, Eric: Great point! I updated the post to include that I normally do this right after I first import my images into Lightroom before they are placed into a Collection or Collection Set. That way, when you delete the rejects it removes them from your computer. Thanks for catching that. :)

By: Eric Vaandering

Eric Vaandering — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 08:38:14 +0000

The way you showed it, they are not out of Lightroom at all, just out of whatever collection you happened to be in.

You should switch to a folder view and select Delete Rejected. Then they are really at least out of Lightroom and if you select “delete from Disk” they are well and truly gone from your computer (well, they are in the trash).