Inconveniences?

[Bob Rockefeller]

I have a thread started over on the Phase One forum:

http://forum.phaseone.com/En/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=21574&sid=096ebae80ffca526b81e5f1bc662b688

Does anyone here want to discuss it there, or should I start a parallel thread here?

[The View]

Why is deleting an image from the hard drive AND the catalog difficult?

Doesn't it work like in v8, command delete?

[Bob Rockefeller]

Why is deleting an image from the hard drive AND the catalog difficult?

Doesn't it work like in v8, command delete?

Well.... It depends.

If the image file is in the CO catalog (managed), ⌘ delete removes the image from the album, but not from the catalog. And it doesn't put it in the catalog trash.

If the image file is stored in the folder system (referenced) and you select it while viewing the folder tree contents, then ⌘ delete gives you the choice of just removing it from the catalog or also removing it from the drive. But if you select it while viewing it in an album, then it just removes it from the album.

I'm still not entirely sure of how to delete a managed image from the drive.

[fdisilvestro]

If you are viewing the image from an album, when you delete it you just remove from the album but not from the catalog, that is the way it works.

If you delete a managed image while viewing the catalog content, it will move the image to the trash folder where you can later select "empty trash" to remove the image from the drive

[Bob Rockefeller]

If you are viewing the image from an album, when you delete it you just remove from the album but not from the catalog, that is the way it works.

So how do you delete it from the catalog and storage? I mean gone gone?

[Bob Rockefeller]

Here are the steps I found others use to delete managed images from the catalog and drive:

1) Apply a tag, perhaps Red, to the images you'd like to delete
2) Select the All Images collection
3) Filter that collection for images tagged Red
4) Select all of them and click the trash can icon on the toolbar
5) Empty the catalog trash

That just seems like too many steps to get the job done.

Does anyone have a faster/better solution?

[fdisilvestro]

Hi,

Not that I know. You need to select somehow the images you want to delete, as in your steps 1 to 3.

[Bob Rockefeller]

Not that I know. You need to select somehow the images you want to delete, as in your steps 1 to 3.

Yep. Inconvenient.

What I'd like to be able to do is to select the images I want to delete, click the trash can icon on the toolbar, and then empty the catalog trash. Simple and straightforward, no?

[James R]

I select the images I want to delete and then hit the delete key, then confirm where you want them sent.  I use the control click method when using a small number of images, and use a filter method when culling through hundreds of images.

[Bob Rockefeller]

I select the images I want to delete and then hit the delete key, then confirm where you want them sent.  I use the control click method when using a small number of images, and use a filter method when culling through hundreds of images.

That doesn't delete an image if you have it selected in a managed (images stored in the catalog) collection album - which I work from a lot.