Going out of my mind. Deleting files.
I am laughing at myself as I type, and beg your patience, as I can only be doing something really stupid and obvious...but I still can't work out deleting files!!! This is, to my shame, my second post, as original ideas haven't helped. I am using latest version software.
I have made the LR - C1 transition and everything is falling into place, and I love the software. But I can't delete files 😭
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I want to delete all of a recent import.
Go to: Library, recent import list. Right click. Delete is in the menu, but is greyed out, along with half the other options.
So I left click and the import shots come up. I highlight them and right click. No 'delete' but there is 'remove from catalog'.
I click that, and the shots I have highlighted disappear, but no other options appear, and they are now in 'catalog trash'.
If I go to 'library/catalog trash', they are all there - if in my library box i right click on trash, 'delete' is an option (but greyed out, presumably as that would be to delete the trash folder entirely), but also the 'empty catalog trash' is also greyed out.
What in god's name am I missing - I just want to delete some bloody files from my catalog and hard disk!
I'll be waiting in the corner for some advice, wearing a dunce hat.
I have made the LR - C1 transition and everything is falling into place, and I love the software. But I can't delete files 😭
SO
I want to delete all of a recent import.
Go to: Library, recent import list. Right click. Delete is in the menu, but is greyed out, along with half the other options.
So I left click and the import shots come up. I highlight them and right click. No 'delete' but there is 'remove from catalog'.
I click that, and the shots I have highlighted disappear, but no other options appear, and they are now in 'catalog trash'.
If I go to 'library/catalog trash', they are all there - if in my library box i right click on trash, 'delete' is an option (but greyed out, presumably as that would be to delete the trash folder entirely), but also the 'empty catalog trash' is also greyed out.
What in god's name am I missing - I just want to delete some bloody files from my catalog and hard disk!
I'll be waiting in the corner for some advice, wearing a dunce hat.
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[quote="NNN635887555504104078" wrote:
So I left click and the import shots come up. I highlight them and right click. No 'delete' but there is 'remove from catalog'.
I click that, and the shots I have highlighted disappear, but no other options appear, and they are now in 'catalog trash'.
What I get at this point is a dialog asking:
"Remove File References
References to files located outside of the catalog will be removed from the Catalog.
Do you want to move the corresponding image files to the System Trash or do you want to keep the files in place?"
It then offers me three choices : "Keep in place", "Cancel" or "Move to Trash".
If I "Move to Trash", then the files go the OS X's trash.
Are you using a managed catalog or a referenced one? Have you checked that all the warnings are enabled in Capture One's preferences?0 -
Ok, so you are in the "Catalog Trash". Now, go to File > Empty Catalog Trash
That should do it.0 -
OK, thank you, with your help I think I am getting it sorted, so very much appreciated.
Emptying through the file menu has worked for trash - I hadn't looked there, partly used to right click context menus, but also because the option IS there when I right click on the trash, just greyed out, so assumed that is where it is done from.
I don't get the variety of delete options you mention, John, but I am assuming that is because all my files are within the catalog - (the C1 catalog and file system is the bit I haven't mentally changed to yet, and am still treating it in simple out of the box lightroom terms.
So in emptying trash, am I removing the files from my harddrive to? In lightroom you get a 'delete from just catalog or delete original file too' type message, but not so in C1 - I don't want to miss a step and keep my catalog neat but have endless unreferenced junk images clogging up my HDD...
Thanks again for your help with something I am sure should be obvious to me 😉0 -
[quote="NNN635887555504104078" wrote:
I don't get the variety of delete options you mention, John, but I am assuming that is because all my files are within the catalog - (the C1 catalog and file system is the bit I haven't mentally changed to yet, and am still treating it in simple out of the box lightroom terms.
That's probably the difference here, indeed. If your pictures files are within the catalog, you're using a "managed" catalog. Mine are stored outside of the catalog, as I'm using a "referenced" catalog.
I might be wrong, but I seem to remember that Lightroom only supports the "referenced" variety.0 -
This is what I do to delete files:
1. I created a Smart Album that contains only photos with red color tags.
2. For each photo I want to delete, I use the hyphen key on the keyboard. This marks the photo with a red tag.
3. Go to that Smart Album that contains all the photos with red color tags.
4. Select all the photos (I review them first, just to be sure) to delete
5. Click on the garbage can icon in the toolbar.
6. I have a referenced file catalog, so I get an information box that asks if I want to "Keep in Place" (removes the photo from the catalog but it remains on the hard drive, or "Move to Trash" (which removes the photo to the computer's trash)0 -
Indeed, deleting in C1P is a it brain-dead.
I do like the software, but:
1: I need to go in a smart album or Folder to be able to "Move to Trash".
2: When I do it, it moves first the file from my NAS to the trashcan of the MacOS's system disk.. then I can actually deleted them!
So, if I delete 1000 files (about 25 Gb), it will moves during hours files to the local disk..
This has to be improved. CaptureOne's team, stop to add features, and spend the next mouth to fix such things 😜0 -
I have a simulare problem. I highlight a number of files I would like to delete. Right click and hit delete. Then only the first one disappears. Is there a faster way to cull out photos right after a shoot rather then one at a time? 0 -
[quote="NNN635564421607831228" wrote:
...only the first one disappears.
I guess you happened to meet the part of the user interface that confuses most new users.
The mark-and-operate-on functionality has a clickable one-or-all-the-marked toggle on the Toolbar (between the textual menu line and the tooltabs). The symbol is a rectangle where two more rectangles appear to be stacked behind it. On my system the symbol turns orange when operate-on-all-the-marked-images is active.0 -
[quote="OddS" wrote:
[quote="NNN635564421607831228" wrote:
...only the first one disappears.
I guess you happened to meet the part of the user interface that confuses most new users.
The mark-and-operate-on functionality has a clickable one-or-all-the-marked toggle on the Toolbar (between the textual menu line and the tooltabs). The symbol is a rectangle where two more rectangles appear to be stacked behind it. On my system the symbol turns orange when operate-on-all-the-marked-images is active.
This is a MASSIVELY helpful post...Thank you! 😄0
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