trash folder
I posted about this once before - it seems like there are RAW files missing from my trash folder. Sometimes i want to redo an image & I go to the trash & it's not there... am I missing something? Thanks.
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Catalog or session?
Have you ever emptied the session/catalog trash? If it's a session and you empty the trash, then the file will be completely deleted from your computer (not even going into the system trash). If it's a catalog and you empty the trash, then for images that were stored outside the catalog (referenced images) you will be offered the choice of just removing them from the catalog or also deleing them from the disk. For images that were stored inside the catalog, you don't get the same choices: you can only have the images deleted entirely or you can cancel.
If I've understood your way of working correctly, it sounds as though you edit a raw file, create output from it (JPG etc) and then put the raw in the trash because you have finished with it. I'm not sure that you should regularly send images to the trash and then expect to retrieve them. You should be able to retrieve images from the trash, and really the trash is a safeguard against just deleting and then regretting it later. But as a way of working, I don't see it as a good idea to send images you have processed to the trash as if it were a holding area to store them in until they are wanted again. There are better ways of working, for instance you could move processed images to another location in the catalog, if you really want to. (But why bother?) It certainly doesn't save space - they take up just as much space in the trash as anywhere else.
(Apologies if I have misunderstood what you are doing.)
Do you have system backups? Can you restore the missing raw files from those if needed?
Ian
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Thanks for your response Ian. I use sessions and only empty the trash by first filtering and always hiding raw files. Then I delete what's left, JPEG and Tiff. Unless I am misunderstanding this process, or the program is faulty, I shouldn't be losing any raw files. And yes you do understand perfectly my question. I don't delete raw files with the intention of retrieving them, but sometimes I come across an image that I see could be improved and I would rather work on the original than the jpeg. I do have backups but they're not easy to access. I will just let this go, as it only happens occasionally and art is impermanent.
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I am not sure that filtering the trash works, though I have never tried it. I think - someone else may be able to confirm - that either you empty the whole trash or you don't.
Ian
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You may be right Ian!
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