How to mass-delete unrated images in Lightroom?

Hi everyone and happy Memorial Day.
I wonder if someone can help me with a Lightroom question.
How can I erase all of my un-flagged images? I would like to quickly flag or otherwise mark all the keepers and maybe keepers and then delete all the rest. I feel like there must be a way because having to hit each image with an "x" to reject it seems like too big a pain for there not to be a shortcut.
I recall someone on a forum told me how to delete all rejected images at once by hitting CTRL-BACKSPACE and that has saved me hours of wasted time over the last couple of years. I hope someone can suggest a similar shortcut for deleting all unrated images, keeping my flagged ones safe.
Scott
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"A related note: who worries the next Adobe Lightroom will go to the "Creative Cloud" ."
I have been dealing with Adobe for 40+ years and one thing for sure, you never know. I am a beta tester for them. They don't tell us much either. I am going to "guess", likely. Maybe 60/40 to go cloud. Make sure you keep your copy up-to-date!
Photoshop and Lightroom plus the rest of CS are mature products. Meaning the market is saturated. The only new revenue is the few new photographers that enter the field. This leaves Adobe to just do upgrades to make a profit. Is the upgrade worth it? Every 18 months or 2 years? To some, yes but to others no. Makes future predictions of revenue difficult. The CC format guarantees a constant revenue stream, forever. Adobe's profits are very high right now and their stock is up. So your guess is a s good as mine.
You are also likely to see other mature software go the subscription route. Microsoft Office
There is also the misguided theory that bootleging would be better controlled but that hasn't happened.
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