How to delete photos from a collection

Question

Hi,
The fact that I can't delete a photo when I'm browsing a collection is now one of the few things that really hampering my LR experience. The issue occurs even more often than it needs to because I often need to open several photos in Photoshop from which to create a final composite image. The quickest way to do this is to select them all and choose "Edit in Photoshop". However this create TIFFs for each file that I won't want to keep, so I then need to delete all but one of them.
I'm hoping that I've just missed something obvious...
At the moment I have to select the photo(s) that I want to delete, right click, choose to view them in the library, press the delete key, confirm the fact that I really would like to remove the files from the disk, then press the "back" button to get back to my collection view. Hardly quick.
If the photos aren't all in the same folder then this doesn't work at all since there is no common folder. From the collection view there's simply no way of knowing if this is the case.
I've tried using the Quick collection to group all the photos that I want to delete, however you can't delete them from there either.
I've tried using the reject flag to flag all the ones that I want to delete, but that doesn't help either. All you can do with the rejected photos is to remove them from the collection; the reject flag isn't sticky across collection and the folder view.
I really need an efficient way to delete multiple files from a collection view. Is there one?
Thanks,
Tim

Answer 1

There is a three key combo for this. See the appropriate to your OS PDF in the FAQ, top of forum list, for a comprehensive Keyboard SHortcut list, including operators for Find.
Don
Don Ricklin, MacBook 2Ghz Duo 2 Core running 10.5.1 & Win XP, Pentax *ist D
See LR Links list at my
Blog for related sites.