quigsby

Sally is absolutely right, I have struggled with this issue forever. I import raw file from my card, I go through and select remove photo, I get the prompt "Delete the selected master photo from disk, or just remove it from Lightroom?" I choose delete from disk. However on my main hard drive under Users, my profile, pictures, folder named 2019, are all the raw imports I brought into into light room, including the ones I asked to delete from disk. If I import 10 pictures and delete from disk just as I described none of them are deleted from the hard drive. The problem arises in the bulk of photos that continue to accumulate and fill up the hard drive. After every import I have to go back and pic by pic delete the one I don't want and keep the ones LR needs to find fo the LRC.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Please see the comment / questions above about confirming the location on disk, from within LR, where the files reside. Is this the exact same location as displayed by Photos?

sergiohm

It seems to me you have an Apple computer.
How are you importing your photos from the camera into the computer?
I guess you are using LR but you have the Apple photos to automatically scan for photos from your pictures folder?
If that’s the case what is happening is that LR and Apple photos have their own catalog, LR deletes from the pictures folder but Apple photos still has a copy. BTW if this is your current setup any changes in LR to the photos will not appear in Apple photos.
You have 2 options:
a. From now on, turn off the Apple photos setting to automatically scan the Pictures folder. This way, Apple Photos will not know about your pictures in the Pictures folder which will be managed exclusively by LR. You must use only LR to Import your photos from the camera/memory card into your computer.
b. This is a riskier option. You keep Apple Photos synchronized with the Pictures folder but never use LR to import your photos from the camera/ memory card into your computer but rather have LR import your pictures from the Apple photos catalog. You will need to import the pictures from your camera to the computer using Apple photos. I said this is riskier because in this case your photos files do not exist in the Pictures folder anymore they are inside the Apple folders library file. In case this catalog file is corrupted you’d loose all your photos unless you’re using the Apple cloud to store all your photos from the Apple Photos (which you should but if you have a lot of photos would require you to pay a monthly fee to increase your space in the cloud).

I use option a because I don’t like the Apple Photo library, it renames the original photo files and to view the files you need an Apple computer. I usually move my pictures files to an external drive once I’m done editing and may need to open these files in a Windows computer. I also prefer to have Apple Photos manage only the iPhone pictures, the pictures from my cameras I manage in LR and I share only the pictures I want to share using Google Photos.
Hope this helps

quigsby

I do not use Apple Photos. With a Mac the Pictures folder is part of the hierarchy structure as you drill down from the HD Icon, if I accidentally remove a photo that is in this folder LR will let me know that cannot be found. These imports are all raw files, Apple Photos won't import these files anyway.

scubadoc Loc: Sarasota, FL

In Lightroom, once you have flagged with an x, you need to enable filters, then with your filter criteria set to rejected photos you will see all your rejected photos in the grid view of the library module. CMD-A to select all images ,then hit delete. All should disappear. I’m not sure what you mean by “photo file”.

scubadoc Loc: Sarasota, FL

Apple Photos will import Raw images.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

When you import the photos into LR are you taking the files from the card or from the computer? And are you using "Add" or "Copy"?
If you are taking the file from the computer, "Add" will just place the location of the file into LR, while "Copy" will make a duplicate before placing the location of the file into LR.

If you are taking the file from the card, you want to use "Copy" so you have the file on the computer. Otherwise you can't edit the image without having the card connected to your computer and when you reformat the card you lose the original.

If you put the files onto the computer first, then import into LR, using "Copy" will give you two copies on your computer. Using LR to delete the file from the disk will delete one of those copies. The other will still be there.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

I don’t use LR but there should be a selection that lets you delete the photos from the Catalogue AND from the hard disk at the same time. The data in the Catalogue is just a marker to where the photos are and not the photos themselves.

bleirer

Is it possible as user chg Canon wrote, that you have two copies of each photo? If you get the photos off the camera outside of Lightroom that is one, then when you go to use them in lightroom there is an option to just add them to the catalog or to make another copy. If so Lightroom might be correctly removing the one but be leaving the other. Remember that the Lightroom catalog is not the picture itself, but simply a recipe for the various changes made to the picture it is linked to. If you look in the folders area on the left, you can see the folder names and there are options there for managing the folders.

Adobe help via chat has helped me, there is a little run around while you get transferred to the right person, but then it works. Go to help from within Lightroom, the chat icon is bottom right I believe when you scroll down.

Whuff Loc: Marshalltown, Iowa

Sally - the issue is in your import process. You are importing the photos not straight into Lr, but rather you are first importing into “Photos” on your PC. After importing to “Photos” you then open Lr and import from “Photos” to Lr. Is this your procedure? If so, when you choose the option “Delete from disk’’ within Lr, you delete the photo from Lr but not from it’s original location within ‘’Photos’’. You can either go back to ‘’Photos’’ and delete them there, or change your import process to import directly to Lr. I don’t know how changing your import process will affect your catalog structure, however.

Walt

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Photos is the built in photographic application in a mackintosh

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

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quigsby

Right now I am shooting a A9II which shoots ARW raw files, Apple Photos will not recognize them nor will apples native viewer preview. They are always behind

Jagnut07 Loc: South Carolina

I may be wrong but I suspect what is happening is that you also have Apple Cloud (iCloud). Your photos are synced and stored in the cloud. So when you delete from LR and select disk then they do In fact delete from disk but then they are automatically copied back down again from iCloud so they are synced again. Disconnect syncing with iCloud and see if that works. However that will still not delete them from iCloud.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

The "other option" is "Delete from Disk" (which is the one you want).
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