Selecting and Deselecting all images
Just had a very bad experience with not knowing how to use C1 11. Finished culling and deleting days images. Ended up with 35 images I thought had a good chance for further development. Many had already had many adjustments in C1. I decided to give them all a 1 star rating. I highlighted (selected) the first image scrolled to the bottom and Shift clicked on bottom image. All images were selected so I hit the 1 key to give all the same rating.
Now what should have been a mundane task of deselecting all the images in order to concentrate on any one image turned into a nightmare and I ended up deleting all 35 images. I do not even know how that happened. All my Osprey shots of them snagging bass out of the water are gone. I am very upset that I was not even warned that the images would be deleted, I just saw them start disappearing from the browser. What the @#$%%%.
I have been a windows user and a PS and LR user for years, way before LR even existed. I do not remember a program that will just delete data without any warning. This is very upsetting.
And the problem is that I still do not know how to select all and then deselect the images to get on with the show.
I think in my tiredness and exasperation I may have hit the X beside the Undo arrow on the top of the Tools, but my images did not go into the catalog trash, they are just @#$%#@ GONE>>>>>>
Any help appreciated.
Mike
Now what should have been a mundane task of deselecting all the images in order to concentrate on any one image turned into a nightmare and I ended up deleting all 35 images. I do not even know how that happened. All my Osprey shots of them snagging bass out of the water are gone. I am very upset that I was not even warned that the images would be deleted, I just saw them start disappearing from the browser. What the @#$%%%.
I have been a windows user and a PS and LR user for years, way before LR even existed. I do not remember a program that will just delete data without any warning. This is very upsetting.
And the problem is that I still do not know how to select all and then deselect the images to get on with the show.
I think in my tiredness and exasperation I may have hit the X beside the Undo arrow on the top of the Tools, but my images did not go into the catalog trash, they are just @#$%#@ GONE>>>>>>
Any help appreciated.
Mike
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[quote="Michael_A" wrote:
Just had a very bad experience with not knowing how to use C1 11. Finished culling and deleting days images. Ended up with 35 images I thought had a good chance for further development. Many had already had many adjustments in C1. I decided to give them all a 1 star rating. I highlighted (selected) the first image scrolled to the bottom and Shift clicked on bottom image. All images were selected so I hit the 1 key to give all the same rating.
Now what should have been a mundane task of deselecting all the images in order to concentrate on any one image turned into a nightmare and I ended up deleting all 35 images. I do not even know how that happened. All my Osprey shots of them snagging bass out of the water are gone. I am very upset that I was not even warned that the images would be deleted, I just saw them start disappearing from the browser. What the @#$%%%.
I have been a windows user and a PS and LR user for years, way before LR even existed. I do not remember a program that will just delete data without any warning. This is very upsetting.
And the problem is that I still do not know how to select all and then deselect the images to get on with the show.
I think in my tiredness and exasperation I may have hit the X beside the Undo arrow on the top of the Tools, but my images did not go into the catalog trash, they are just @#$%#@ GONE>>>>>>
Any help appreciated.
Mike
It shouldn't be deleted from your hard drive as you would have seen a warning before actual delete (if you have the default warning settings). You probably pressed the default hotkey to move the images to the trash.
Check the Trash under Library, should be in there. Library->Catalog Collections->Trash
While you can scroll down to the bottom image and shift click, you can just press control+A to select all. Shift click is good for selecting like the first or second half of images.
Also click "File" and "Edit" menus to see what the hotkeys are set to. Especially...Delete (Move to Catalog Trash), Delete from Disk, and Select / Deselect All. You'll want to change the hotkeys if that will help from accidental presses.
I'm using the Mac version but this should all be relatively the same.0 -
Thanks Wesley,
However I did it, they seem to be gone. The system file folder is empty and although there are some images in catalog trash, none of the images that I lost are there.
I started digital with a canon D30 around 2000, this is the first time I can say that I have lost meaningful files. Although I have had several copies of C1, from early on, I just did not use the program seriously until Adobe forced the subscription model on users. I am now starting out 2018 revamping my whole workflow with C1, I like the program, but it does not play by the usual windows shortcut keys and I cannot get over the lack of use of the Enter key and now finding that Ctrl-Shift-A would have solved all my problems instead of Ctrl D for deselect is a bitter lesson.
Thanks again..0 -
Very sorry to hear of your loss of images. Never a good thing.
Since you are working on your work flow at this time anyway here is the part of mine that prevents such a total disaster. You cannot prevent the mistake but you can prevent the likely hood that you cannot recover:
1) After a shoot I take my cards and import images to C1. During the import the images go into their folder on my image catalog HD and an additional copy is made in a folder on my general back up drive.
[images are now in three places - card, image catalog HD and back up HD]
2) I usually work on them right away on my image catalog HD (culling and some initial adjustments)
3) at the end of the day I'll run my back up that mirrors my image catalog HD to another back up drive
[images are now in four places but I allow my self to format the card at this point for future use - so only three safe locations]
4) Some time later in the week or month I'll take my image catalog backup HD to an offsite location and bring back the other backup HD
5) I run the back up again and update my 2nd image catalog backup HD
[now my images are in four permanent locations one physically miles away from my house - my image catalog HD, my general backp HD, my first image catalog backup HD and my second image catalog back up HD]
My general backup HD is really a last resort since it only contains the raw files with no catalog or adjustments at all. But the other three HDs are mirrors of each other and can have everything - obviously not always 100% in sync.
This system protects me form my mistakes, ransom ware attacks and even fire and burglary.0 -
I will suggest you write our Support-team, so they can figure out what went wrong. 0 -
I know that advice after the fact is never that helpful but...
When I import my images they're immediately (automatically) backed up to an online storage service (Sync.com).
In this way I can always get back images I might have inadvetantly deleted. Even if I do delete images and then change my mind Sync.com keeps the deleted images in a seperate folder so I can retrieve them.
Just a thought as I'm pretty sure that all of us here hate to hear about images getting deleted permantly by accident.0 -
Select all images = ctrl a
Deselect all = ctrl shift a
It sounds like you have a filter applied that's hiding the 1 star images
I find it hard to believe this is a software issue but I have sympathy for your frustration and I hope you'll get it figured out!0 -
Thanks All,
Good advice Ian, I must admit I have been playing a little fast and loose with my overall storage. Although I have several cards, I get used to downloading and formatting the same card every day. Leaving me vulnerable to loss till keepers are duplicated to second and third drives.
Thanks Richard, Sync.com sounds like a pretty good company.
Thanks Christian, is their a log in the system files that might tell me the keystroke sequence I took to delete my files. Learning how to idiot proof my workflow is one thing, but being proficient with the program is also a goal.
Thanks again for your time and suggestions.0 -
Michael, have you noticed WPNL's suggestion that you may have inadvertently selected a filter that prevents you from seeing the images?
Before files are deleted from the disk, there is a confirmation dialogue and from memory it is not possible to surpress that dialogue in the preferences.
If the files are not present on the disk anymore (you can check whether the number of files in the respective disk folder matches the number of images shown within C1) then perhaps you accidentally moved them somewhere else?
In short, I wonder whether you have exhausted all ways of checking that they may still be around.0 -
Any progress or update? 😊 0 -
Clicking in the neutral area between images in the browser works for deselecting images as well. 0 -
I bet that worst case scenario the images were moved somewhere unexpected. (happened to me before) 0
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