Deleting Rejected Photos

When I went to delete photos I marked as rejected, the dialog box did not give me an option to delete them from the hard drive, only remove them. In the past, I've seen dialog boxes that give both options.
What's going on? How do I get back the option to remove the deleted photos from the hard drive?

You weren't in folder view.

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I no longer get the dialog box when trying to delete rejected photos.

I have always used the Delete Rejected Photos. . . selection to get rid of the photos I have flagged as rejected. However, after the rejected photos are shown, the dialog box no longer appears with the option to Delete from Disc or to Remove from the LR Catalog. I don't know if this problem began with LR 3.4 or before, but the timing was close. It isn't that I don't know how to use the function because I have been using it for years. Any help would be appreciated.

Since I had 358 photos out of almost 2800 flagged as 'rejected' I did not
want to loose all my work. I selected the rejected photos and then flagged
them all with a 'yellow' color. I then displayed all photos with a yellow
flag and 'Un-rejected' them. I highlighted a small amount of them, about 30,
and rejected them and then went to the Delete Rejected photos. the pop-up
came up and I was able to delete them. Since the rest of my yellow flagged
photos were still showing I rejected another chunk of them and so on till
they were all deleted. When trying to delete a group that had published
photos within I got a box warning me that if I deleted them the published
ones could no longer be managed by LR. That is alright with me. It would be
nice if the software would somehow flag those that had been published. All
the dialog box said was that one or more of the group had been published. I
did not know which.
Thanks again for expert help!
Jack

Problems with Delete Rejected Photos

I hope this hasn't been addressed earlier. I checked as far back as I had patience.
I recently upgraded to a new Vista 64bit system. LR 64bit seems to "Not Respond" after I use the "delete rejected photos". Both instances the photos were deleted but LR Library siezed. On the first occaision I deleted around 40 photos the secont time was 300+ photos. Any ideas or information welcome.
Thanks
Jim

I'm banging myself on the head, 11,400+ items, 39.2gb. I knew that, just forgot to think of it. Just copied/moved much data between four drives. Thanks

Can't 'Delete Rejected Photos' (since Lightroom 5.6?) - just removes from catalog, not disk

I use Lightroom 5 (64-bit) on Windows. Recently (possibly since the 5.6 upgrade?) I can't delete rejected photos from the catalog. Instead of asking if I want to delete from the disk or just the catalog or cancel, like it used to, it now asks if I want to remove from the catalog or cancel. The files are left on disk. This happens if I Ctrl-Backspace or choose the Photo > Delete Rejected Photos menu.
Anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions please? My daughter borrows my camera so I delete a LOT of pictures - without this option I don't have a quick way to do that.
- cheers, Barney

I had a similar problem, and here is what I think is happening.
It depends on how you are viewing your pictures. If you are viewing a collection, Delete Rejected Photos will only remove them from the collection. There is no prompt to remove the files from the hard drive. Instead, you need to view the entire catalog (All Photographs). This time when you selected Delete Rejected Photos, there is a prompt asking if you want to remove the files completely from hard disk.
I have recently switched from Bridge to Lightroom, and I'm used to organizing and sorting my photos by directory. This is another adjustment I need to make in my normal workflow.

Internal Error when trying to delete rejected photos

This problem started yesterday after I moved some of my library to an external hard drive. I created a new catalog and moved the photos within lightroom. I don't know if the move of photos caused the error or not. Now whenever I try to delete rejected photos, I get the following error message:
Database "/Users/mollynordin/Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom 4 Catalog.lrcat": PreviewDataObservers_DevSettingsDeletions.devSettingsDigest may not be NULL
Statement: DELETE FROM Adobe_imageDevelopSettings WHERE id_local = ?;

I cannot delete any photos even if they are not rejected.

I'm getting an error message when I try to delete rejected photos!

When I use the filter for selecting the flagged 'rejected' photos and press Cmd+delete, and then "delete from disk," as I have done many many times in the past, It is suddenly telling me that my files cannot be moved to the Trash folder. I just updated today from Lightroom 1.3 to 1.4.1, but this was happening over this past week, before the update. I'm on a MacBook Pro, using Leopard 10.5.2. Any ideas why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?

I could delete a couple of images through finder, yes...and then they'd delete from Lightroom. The workaround I found is to create a subfolder containing the deleted images in Lightroom, and then delete that folder from the finder. It's not quite right, but it works for now. I wonder if the trouble has something to do with the location of the images? Not sure. I was able to delete some other images within Lightroom successfully, but I can't figure out yet what these have in common that are different! I'll keep working on it...

Trouble deleting rejected photos

I am cleaning up an old catalogue and marked a number of photos for rejecting. I get the following error message together with a scrollable list of the rejected photos:
"the files are on a volume that does not support Trash, would you like to permanently delete them?"
Nothing happened when I selected the permanently delete button.
This was not consistent behavrior, one time the rejected photos were deleted on persisting.
This is an old catalogue and the files are on a different internal drive from the cataloge, note that I DID move them within Lightroom and nothing seems wrong with the thumbnail, i.e. the correct path is displayed and there is no question mark, etc.
Any suggestions or explanations are appreciated. I really want to delete my subpar photos!

Hello,
no solution but a work around.
Create a filter for all rejected images an move these images a different, drive / partion with a trashcan. Then remove the images.

Lightroom 5.7.1 not deleting rejected photos

lightroom 5.7 and 5.7.1 not deleting photos or photos marked as rejected. Photos are stored on an external USB HD. Any idea why and resolution??

Your destination folder (as specified in the Lightroom Import dialog box Destination panel) does not have WRITE permission. Change your permissions.

Problem deleting multiple rejected photos in Lightroom 3

I had some frustrating trouble deleting a set of rejected photos. I am running LR3 on Windows 7 64 bit.
I flagged about 220 out of 600 photos as rejects in a folder. When I hit ctrl-backspace to delete them, the rejects were shown in the grid view but were not deleted. Nothing I could do would delete them, I tried all the workarounds I could find in the forum and tried everything else I could think of. I was able to delete them one at a time but not all at once.
Then I tried deleting them in chunks... two at a time, three at a time - worked. Then I tried 30 or so - got a message that one or more of the photos had been published to flickr. I clicked OK to delete from Flickr, that was processed then I got the prompt to delete them - worked. Then I tried deleting the rest of the pictures - about 160 left at that point, worked fine.
There seem to be quite a few people having trouble deleting rejected photos, maybe there is some kind of conflict between the publishing function and deleting rejects?

With respect to problems deleting multiple keywords: On Windows, since at least version 3, LR has had basic bugs when you have more than about 1600 keywords showing. (Hard to believe it isn't fixed by now.) A simple workaround for you situation is to filter the keywords one letter at a time and then select the subset of keywords that are showing -- e.g. filter all keywords with the letter "t", then all keywords with the letter "b", etc.
With respect to not getting the keywords into your catalog in the first place: You can define a Metadata Preset that will clear the keywords on import:

Why are my rejected photos still visible after I delete them?

I am not an advanced LR user by any means, so I'm hoping I can get some insight here. When I go through my photos, I first reject them. I take a look at all of my rejected ones, then I select the "delete rejected photos" option and then "remove from disk."
When I go to my "All Photographs" collection, I can still see all of my rejected photos, except they are grayed out. Why is this? I don't want to see them anymore, I'd like them to be gone forever!
Any help you can give would be great. Thank you!

I think we will need some more information.
What do you mean by "All Photographs" collection?
Is it a regular collection?
Is it a smart collection?
When you created the collection did you choose to create virtual copies?

How can I get rejected photos out of LR5 and off the HD?

When I try to deleted rejected photos in LR5 on my iMac, I get a dialog saying they can't be sent to the trash. How can I get unwanted photos out of LR5 and off the hard drive?

Instead of hitting just the delete key, you need to hit ⌘+Del and one of the choices will be to remove from hard drive.

Are previews deleted when photos are deleted?

After being confused for a while (as I'm sure many are) about not being able to delete photos from my memory card from Lightroom, I am trying to get into a "correct" workflow which I believe involves formatting the card when I have saved and backed up the images on it. So far I've come to this:
0) Start with an empty memory card and take photos with my camera
1) Import all photos, selecting to create 1:1 previews
2) Look through the imported photos, marking the ones I never want to look at again as Rejected
3) Delete Rejected photos
4) Backup everything that is left
5) Format memory card
This seems to work, but I just want to make sure that the 1:1 previews created during the import of the photos that I Reject are deleted at the same time as the Rejected photos are deleted, so that they are not part of the backup step. Is this the case?
Also, are there any other problems with this workflow?
Thanks,
David

Previews should not be in the same folder hierarchy as the actual images.
With regards to rejecting photos, there are pros and cons to each approach. I just import everything.
I don't know if previews are deleted immediately when the image is deleted, I don't worry about it, I have never had a need to see whether a particular preview exists in the preview cache, so actually I don't know the answer. Why does it matter? Is your disk so close to being full that you are worried about it? that's the only possible reason I can think of to worry about what exists and doesn't exist in the previews cache, and since Lightroom does a very good job of managing these preview files so the human user doesn't have to, I would recommend you not worry about it. There's enough to do managing your actual images so my advice is to not worry about what is and is not in the preview cache.

Rejected photos = Deleted??

What actually happens with a rejected photo? I have a feeling they are NOT deleted nor is any space freed up by rejecting photos. It seems all it does is remove it's preview from the project, album, etc.
Is there a way to MASS delete all rejected items to free up some HD space?
Why or who would want to keep all those rejected items?
BRad

They are not deleted automatically. The default filter does not show rejected files. You can change this if you want. The default is "Unrated or Better". You can see this in the search box in the low right corner of the monitor, between the viewer and the browser. Click the triangle and choose "Rejected".
Another way is to make a new "Smart Album" at the top level where the "Rating 'is' " Rejected (move the slider to the far left).
Either way, select all, then delete the files.

Bridge on Mac deleting/rejecting/filtering not working!?! HELP

Ok seems as if I am having a problem only windows users have run into in earlier versions of CS. I was using CS5 on my PC and for many reasons I had to dump the dead weight of the PC world and move to a Mac... FINALLY! But that also ment purchasing a new CS5 for Mac. I thought this would be flawless... CS5 to CS5. WRONG. I store my photos on a 2TB external, same one i used on my PC. Now, I can not do any sort of "editing" of image info like "delete, "reject", "star" or anyother rating within bridge. It does not work with key commandes or from the menu. After researching this issue for two days it seems as if this issuse has been reserved for PC users and earlier versions being upgraded to newer ones. This is not the case for me. They said to "use as Administrator" I am the adminsitrator, and have made sure the permisissions have been set to read and write. That has not made a difference. Others have said that there seems to be no solution. Things they have tried include:
~Uninstall/reinstall of CS
~administrator settings
~setting it to open automatically at start up
~deleting pictures and reloading them through the new software version (this also seems to be an issue reserved for photos that have already been uploaded, I do not know if this will change with new images loaded through the new version as I have not had a chance to try it, since I'm trying to resolve this first)
I need to have access to my previously loaded files and this is a huge hiccup!
PS I can open the files to Photoshop, and edit, and the changes seem to stick, its just any organization, deleting, staring etc actually in bridge DONT stick. another issue that the PC users seem to have is error messages and pop-up windows when tring to exicute these tasks. I have no error messages.
PLEASE HELP! thx

I am read only on both of my externals! when i tried to find a way to set permissions, it says that I should be able to find a "lock" once I have gone to "get info" there is no "lock" so that I may enter my password and change permissions.
First thing that comes to my mind is that you have used the same external disks as you did for Windows. And that you did not reformatted them for a Mac using MacOS Extended (Journaled) formatting.
Without knowing your situation I assume you have a back up disk with the same content as your problem disk. If not it might be wise to buy a new back Up disk. There is one thing sure about disks, they all have an end date, some sooner most later but they all die and often at a moment you did not expect it nor could use it...
Make sure you have a proper back up and the reformat the disk (or the new disk) using Mac Disk Utillity
Personally I always use the safety option to overwrite the disk once with Zeros but that takes a bit longer.
Give it a proper name and use the default format as mentioned above. Copy the content back to the new formatted disk and try again
If in doubt try another older disk or buy a cheap one for testing if this method is working for you.

No Export of Rejected Photos

Hi peeps,
When editing a shoot, I CTRL+[arrow down] the rubbish pics to set them as rejected. The plan is to delete them before "selecting ALL" in the shoot and exporting.
Trouble is I'm always forgetting to delete the rejects before exporting ( ARRGHH!). So I've just written a small plugin that adds a filter to the Export Dialog which when enabled prevents any photo that is set as rejected from beign exported. Hurrah!!! Here's the code. Feel free to use if it's useful!
info.lua
return {
    appName = "NoExportRejected",
    author = "Buzz Aldrin",
    LrSdkVersion = 4.0,
    LrSdkMinimumVersion = 4.0, -- minimum SDK version required by this plugin
    LrPluginName = LOC "$$$/SDK/MetaExportFilter/Sample=No Export Rejected",
    LrToolkitIdentifier = 'com.adobe.lightroom.sdk.export.norejected',
    LrExportFilterProvider = {
        title = LOC "$$$/SDK/MetaExportFilter/Sample=Don't Export Rejected", -- the string that appears in the export filter section of the export dialog in LR
        file = 'NoRejectedOnExport.lua', -- name of the file containing the filter definition script
        id = "noRejected", -- unique identifier for export filter
    VERSION = { major=4, minor=1, revision=0, build=831116, },
NoRejectedOnExport.lua
local LrView = import 'LrView'
local bind = LrView.bind
-- This function will create the section displayed on the export dialog
-- when this filter is added to the export session.
local function sectionForFilterInDialog( f, propertyTable )
    return {
        title = LOC "$$$/SDK/MetaExportFilter/SectionTitle=Don't Export Rejected Photos",
            f:row {
                spacing = f:control_spacing(),
                f:static_text {
                    title = "Don't Export Rejected Photos",
                    fill_horizontal = 1,
end
-- This function obtains access to the photos and removes entries that don't match the metadata filter.
local function shouldRenderPhoto( exportSettings, photo )
    local shouldRender
    local flag = photo:getRawMetadata( 'pickStatus' )
    if flag == -1 then
        shouldRender = false
    else
        shouldRender = true
    end
    return shouldRender
end
return {
    exportPresetFields = exportPresetFields,
    startDialog = startDialog,
    sectionForFilterInDialog = sectionForFilterInDialog,
    shouldRenderPhoto = shouldRenderPhoto,

Sweet - thanks John.
~R

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