Delete from disk+move to ext. disk error!??

This is so strange!
When i hit backspace and select "delete from disk", it "removes" it from lightroom, but it is still in the finder, and when sync folder, it reappears? So annoying, having 2000 useless files wanting deleted, mixed with 10 that cannot be lost.
Some folders, when trying to move them inside LR, to an ext. disk, it creates the folder on ext. disk, sometimes with none, one or two files - never more. And then this appirs "Could not move files, and unknown error occured" inside LR.
And I cannot rename folders.
Please help.

_marc_b_ wrote:
A clever way someone else suggested recently:
Synchronise the folder - all the deleted photos will be reimported, and will be added to the "Previous Import" collection
Select all the photos in the "Previous Import" collection and delete them
Marc
Yes, if there are a lot of images, that is obviously quicker.
Bob frost

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_marc_b_ wrote:
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No, none are virtual copies.
But... you got me thinking. I went through the photos marked for deletion, checking to make sure that none were virtual copies. In the process I found that 2 photos are part of various collections. I Unmarked those two photos and now the "Delete from Disk" prompt works!
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As I want a clean system, I conducted a series of extra tests to understand why the "delete picture version" did not work.
I can now say that it was related to this second volume (disk) I added in my laptop, which had, for an unknown reason, a permissions issue.
Note that it's impossible to automatically check the volume permissions on a non-bootable partition!
The impact of this permission problem is that the Trash is not working on this volume.
I'm sorry that Aperture didn't mention this (delete) error anywhere during my troubleshooting, as it could have saved me a lot of time!
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Can I delete files from disk that I removed just from LR in error?

Hi, this is a really silly error.
I've just deleted 100s of raw files from lightroom, useless stuff that I should have deleted at the time but was too lazy to do so. Am now trying to purge all the rubbish and it's taking me days (it's from the last 3 years or so.)
This morning I just deleted several hundred images I went to empty the trash can and it's already empty and it's only then that I realise I've been just deleting the files from Lightroom and not from the disk. It's several hours work, is there any way I can now identify in the finder folder which images are not in LR, because these are the ones I want to get rid of for good. I don't want to keep them there taking up valuable memory space or restore them to LR and have to do it all again. Help!
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I would do the following:
BACKUP YOUR CATALOG
Synchronize the folder(s) in question (possibly to top level parent folder)
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I went from 800 photos to 51 and my available HD space remains the same. So in total I deleted about 750 20+MB files. I should have more space free on my hard drive but there is nothing. I make sure to choose "delete from disk" as opposed to just "remove" so I can't imagine the problem. I even went back in and erased back ups in the lightroom folder wondering if maybe the images were hiding out there. Deleting back up folders made nominal difference. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Rob,
You are right. It was GB not MB. I am sure the disk I am looking at is the correct one. I go to the apple, about this mac, more info, storage. Unfortunately I just hit empty trash over and over without looking to see if the files made it in. It has always cleared space before so I assumed it would this time. I do think they made it as I always heard the sound of the trash clearing but I did not actually look for the files first.
I did a lot of research yesterday as to what could be going on and found an article that said time machine backs up locally on my HD and if I want space I can disable that. I found the folder with the back ups and saw there were many. I followed the tutorial online and disabled the back ups and now the folder is gone so you would think- more space. Not one single GB was returned.
I ended up erasing music and photos from iPhoto and a few movies and space cleared when I did those things. Still wondering what happened and want the other space back. 750 raw files is a lot of space, or should be.
Wondering if there is some back up to the back up somewhere.....
Thanks for responding .. I will take all input I can get!

Deleting photos from disk via LR

When deleting photos in LR and choosing 'delete from disk' to delete these too from the disk, these photos are only deleted from LT but not from disk.
How can I solve this problem?

Likely, by only being in Folders when you do this, not Collections or elsewhere.
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I understand the diffrencce between deleting a photo from LR verses completely deleting from the disk.
However when I try to "delete a photo from disk" through light room it remains on my disk no matter what i do.
I do click the option "delete from disk" verses "remove" from LR
any ideas on what is happening here?

Um, very interesting. I have my images located on an EHD and backed up to another EHD (thank heavens) because something very strange happened today which I believe now explains previously lost images. With LR open but no editing taking place I happened to look inside the Recycle Bin (Windows). Low and behold within the Bin were six images that were previously contained within the catalogue and somehow mysteriously relocated to the Recycle Bin. Reducing LR's on-screen window size I then expanded the Recycle Bin window so now I had both open on screen. Upon exiting LR the icons for the missing images disappeared from the Recycle Bin so the question is, were they never there really, were the icons in the Bin simply ghosts or did LR simply delete images of it's own free will? Either way, I never now leave LR open whilst doing other work, and most certainly when empyting the Recycle Bin.
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It is not very clear what you are exactly doing.
Did you import them all and want to delete after importing , then :
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