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Title: How do I delete multiple folder?
Post by: rickshanahan on February 05, 2008, 05:22:52 pm

Hello everybody.  I have deleted a number of folders from my computer, now in LR, all the folders in the Library module on the left have turned red.  How can I update, refresh, or delete all of those without right-clicking and deleting each individual folder?  There's too many for that.

Thanks very much...

Title: How do I delete multiple folder?
Post by: kaelaria on February 05, 2008, 07:28:18 pm

Sync?

Title: How do I delete multiple folder?
Post by: rickshanahan on February 05, 2008, 09:09:41 pm

Thank you...  How do I do that exactly...?

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Sync?
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Title: How do I delete multiple folder?
Post by: Langsey on February 06, 2008, 12:10:35 am

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Hello everybody.  I have deleted a number of folders from my computer, now in LR, all the folders in the Library module on the left have turned red.  How can I update, refresh, or delete all of those without right-clicking and deleting each individual folder?  There's too many for that.

Thanks very much...
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Since you have deleted the photos from your computer, all you have to do is to either click on first and shift click on last red photo/file if in sequence to select in Library and then right click and click delete or ctl click on each red photo/file, not in sequence, to select the files you want to delete.

Hope I answered your question.

John

Title: How do I delete multiple folder?
Post by: jjj on February 06, 2008, 03:42:28 am

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Thank you...  How do I do that exactly...?
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Right/Alt Click on top level  folder and select Sync.
And every thing under that will be synced.

Title: How do I delete multiple folder?
Post by: Langsey on February 06, 2008, 10:18:38 am

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Right/Alt Click on top level  folder and select Sync.
And every thing under that will be synced.
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Thanks, didn't that about the sync feature. I will have use that next time to delete a number of files.

John

Title: How do I delete multiple folder?
Post by: rickshanahan on February 06, 2008, 10:55:07 am

Thank you!  That looks like it should work, but when it opens the synchronize folder dialog box, all of the buttons on the bottom are grayed out except 'cancel'...

??

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Right/Alt Click on top level  folder and select Sync.
And every thing under that will be synced.
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Title: How do I delete multiple folder?
Post by: jjj on February 06, 2008, 11:19:44 am

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Thank you!  That looks like it should work, but when it opens the synchronize folder dialog box, all of the buttons on the bottom are grayed out except 'cancel'..??
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That's because LR is thinking!
And it can take a very long time if you have 10s of thousands of images to scan through, as when synching, LR will look at every photo in folder/subfolders.
Try and synchronise a month at a time, rather than a year.

Title: How do I delete multiple folder?
Post by: rickshanahan on February 06, 2008, 12:30:48 pm

**It worked! Thanks all...**

so if I leave the dialog box sitting there, the 'synchronize' button will become not grayed out after a while...

I wish I had known about this a year ago.  

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That's because LR is thinking!
And it can take a very long time if you have 10s of thousands of images to scan through, as when synching, LR will look at every photo in folder/subfolders.
Try and synchronise a month at a time, rather than a year.
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