Deleting thumbnails from Organiser

If I delete thumbnails from the Organiser main window, the same thumbnails are also deleted from my Collections and tagged files.
Is it necessary for the Organiser to work that way or am I missing something? I just wanted to have less thumnnails to scroll through and once they are tagged it seemed logical to delete the thumbnails from the main window.
Thanks
John

John,
In addition to suggestions such as using a Show tag, it seems that for some cases the Find menu choice of "find untagged items" might be useful for you.
Another general comment is that you probably do not want to place all photos in Collections. I use Collections to make specific arrangements of photos for specific purposes like a slide show. If I have photos from an event like a family birthday party, I make a Tag for the event and then also apply people tags. Only when I am ready to use the photos for something like a slide show where I also want to control sequence, do I make a Collection.
Sometimes people start by using a Collection instead of a Tag for an Event. A Tag has more flexibilty for searching and is therefore almost always better for identification of the photos.
Barb O

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