Deleting rejects

I know I mentioned this once before but this is such a counterintuitive pain: I shot 2000 photos over the weekend and decided to split them up into collections by event. I just spent a hour in one collection rejecting obviously bad photos that nobody would want. The reject does not propagate out of the collection and therefore I am unable to mass delete these photos without a bunch of messing around. There needs to be a setting to make this work the way I expect it to --that is delete the photo from disk, from a collection. It should be smart enough to update any other affected collection.

George,
There is a (at least) a couple of workarounds you can go:
In the collection(s) where the rejects have been applied, set an attribute filter to only show the rejected images, select all images shown and use Shift-Ctrl-Alt-Del (the so called splat delete) to remove the images from the catalog AND the harddisk.
CAUTION: There won't be any confirmation dialog asking again if you really want to delete.
In the collection(s) where the rejects have been applied, set an attribute filter to only show the rejected images, select all images shown and apply a color label, rating or other unused metadata field to those images. Then go into "All Photographs" view, filter on the criteria just applied to the rejected photos and delete them using Del.
Beat

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