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How to move imported images that aren't in any User Collection to Trash?

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  • Walter Rowe
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    Unfortunately there is no easy way to identify images that are NOT in a user collection. It has been a requested feature for some time.

    You can look for the feature request on https://captureone.ideas.aha.io and upvote/comment.

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  • Petr Vones

    But this is basic functionality. How can you work without that? At events you take thousands of pictures, but at the end you use very few of them.

    Is there at least a way to delete all the previews to free the disk space?

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  • Walter Rowe
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    For an event I would recommend using a Session. Move your keepers from the Capture folder to the Selects folder. What remains in the Capture folder can be deleted. What you move to the Selects folder can be imported into an archive catalog. In the import dialog you can choose to copy these images to their permanent home. Once you confirm your archive catalog has the selects you can delete the entire session folder.

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  • Jerry C

    If you use a catalog, you can deal with removing unwanted images and their previews from your catalog. Import images into an album. Select the one(s) to delete and click the minus key, then click the delete key. This results in removal of the images from the album and marks it/them with a red color tag in the corresponding imports collection. I then sort the imports collection by color tag, select the red color tagged images and delete them, thereby putting them in the trash and empty the trash.

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  • Łukasz Gałecki

    Petr Vones

    Walter and Jerry both offer good solutions to your problem. Personally, I browse through imported images to identify keepers, tagging them with green. I tag rejected images with red, and those I’m unsure about with yellow. Afterward, I hide all reds and add the remaining images to albums if needed. Once that’s done, I review the red-tagged images one more time to ensure I didn’t mistakenly mark a good image as a reject, and then I delete the remaining reds. Working with sessions for culling, editing, and exporting delivery files feels more fluid, as it prevents me from seeing images from other assignments. It also conserves computing resources since very large catalogs in C1 can become unmanageable. This was particularly problematic on Windows, where catalogs with over 10,000 images were often unresponsive. However, I’ve only used Mac since version 14, so the situation on Windows may have improved. Finally, I store selected images in a portfolio catalog for easy access to my best work.

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  • Petr Vones

    Thank you for the suggestions. The Jerry's works fine, you even don't have to sort it by the color tag, you can use Select | Select By | Color Tag in the menu.

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