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.

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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.
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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

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?

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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.

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:

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.

Internal Error when trying to delete rejected photos

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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?
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Is it a smart collection?
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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
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Sweet - thanks John.
~R

Photos deleted from iPhoto, but still in Library folder

iPhoto 9.5.1
Strange behavior in iPhoto : let's say I imported 100 photos. Then, in iPhoto, deleted 80, keeping 20. Emptied trash in iPhoto. Then emptied Trash in Finder.
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I've got a lot of photos deleted, but kept in Library, Not good for privacy, not good for hard drive space.
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How do I reject or delete "Soft fail" emails?

Getting spam messages which are spoofing our own internal email domain. Exchange is aware of this and marks the message as a Soft Fail. But how do I stop the message from being delivered into the mailbox?
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