How do I delete a file
How do I delete a file completely and permanently. No trace left, not taking up space on my hard drive? I have many old files I no longer have any use for, I'd just like to make them go away forever and always.
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Move to trash, then empty trash. 0 -
[quote="John Doe" wrote:
Move to trash, then empty trash.
From within Capture One that does not work. The file does not go into the trash basket no matter how many times I try. It drags but when i release the click it just goes back to its original position.0 -
From the All Images collection, right-click > Remove from catalog. 0 -
[quote="John Doe" wrote:
From the All Images collection, right-click > Remove from catalog.
Does that remove it from the hard drive as well as the catalog? I know in Photoshop PE removing from the catalog leaves the file intact. I want it stomped out of existence.0 -
[quote="RedAdmiral" wrote:
[quote="John Doe" wrote:
From the All Images collection, right-click > Remove from catalog.
Does that remove it from the hard drive as well as the catalog? I know in Photoshop PE removing from the catalog leaves the file intact. I want it stomped out of existence.
A dialog will pop up asking if you want only to remove its reference from the catalog or to move the file to the trash.0 -
If you have a large catalog the trip to "All images" is something to avoid if you can. Luckily, you can also delete an image from a smart album, and that will also bring up the dialog box John Doe was referring to.
So, in order to avoid the "All images" collection and to avoid having to answer that dialog box a 100 times, I simply color-tag my to-be-deleted images with red. At the end of the session, I select the "To be deleted" smart album, select all images in there and delete them.
Actually, my workflow is slightly different to work around a serious drawback (bug) in v9: when you delete an image from an external disk, C1 moves it to the trash on the system disk, rather than moving it to the trash of the external disk. That effectively means that a) you're copying files that will be deleted, which could take a long time and b) you stuffing those files on your system disk which is very often a smaller SSD. This is especially problematic when you're deleting many larger images (raw).
So, I use the following workaround
- mark as red as described
- go to "To be deleted" smart folder and select all, as described
- drag those files to a dedicated folder on the external disk.
- remove the files from the catalog, keeping the files in place
- In the Finder, delete the files from that dedicated folder.
I'm curious whether that will still be needed in v10.
Cheers,
Peter.0 -
Just bumping this because it's really bugging me how difficult it is keeping C1 sortof clean.
I would love to have the option to simply delete an image from the whole collection and the harddisk by selecting it insinde an album...0 -
[quote="NN635763638525940093UL" wrote:
Just bumping this because it's really bugging me how difficult it is keeping C1 sortof clean.
I would love to have the option to simply delete an image from the whole collection and the harddisk by selecting it insinde an album...
Install the latest version and check out the release notes.0 -
Latest -> 10.X?
I suppose there wont be any updates like this for v9?0 -
I don't think there'll be any update for 9.x
According to the release notes, the delete from albums feature has been improved in 10.1 and later.0 -
Was afraid so... anyhow, thanks! 0
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