Deleting variants ONLY

syborg

• 2022年05月28日 20:47

I think I pressed F7 and didn't notice I had all images selected in my collection (I wonder how many people went through this). Now I have 2x images, and want to clean up these variants. I explored the menu and found a pretty straightforward (as I thought) way to do it - Select All, then Select Primary Only, Invert Selection, mark the set (star/color), filter and delete. It didn't work - it turns out, Select Primary Only works only for the first image in the selection (why?.. what's the point?).

I'm not going to delete 1k+variants manually, so I would appreciate any advice on how to do it from C1 (or, if it's not possible via UI, directly from SQLite DB).

I really want to think I'm missing something simple here and just haven't used yet to C1 workflows after LRC...

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 2022年05月28日 21:09

  In the browser you should be able to filter on the second variant (believe it is an option on the standard filter menu). Select all, delete. 

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 2022年05月28日 21:28

  I wasn’t at my computer earlier. I just went in and could not see what I recalled. So option b, similar to what you tried, select all, color code. Deselect. Then select primary variants (I did see as an option). Remove the color code on those images. Then filter on the color codes (should give you all the variants except the primary). Then delete.

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  syborg

  • 2022年05月28日 23:23

  The problem is that 'Select Primary variants' is available only when you have selection already. And then it works as (GOTO :post1).
  Ok, what finally worked for me after trying different combinations:

  Image - Collapse All

  Select - Select All

  Select - Deselect Primary

  Image - Expand All

  Select - Invert Selection (! important, but can't get the logic behind)

  Image - Delete

  
  I hope it's a bug, I can't believe it's intended to be normal workflow.

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • 2022年05月29日 08:55

  

  There's a much easier way! Find any one of the 2nd variants in the browser, right click it and choose Select by same... Variant position. Now all your 2nd variants are selected, and you can hit delete.

  Ian

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  syborg

  • 2022年05月29日 09:51

  Awesome. Thank you, Ian.
  
  I wish 'Select Primary Only' worked this way too (for more generic case with 2+ variants).

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • 2022年05月29日 10:10
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  But it does, effectively. Choose any Variant 1, then Select by same variant position as before. And then invert the selection if you want all the 2s, 3s, 4s. etc, but not the 1s.

  Ian

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  syborg

  • 2022年05月29日 10:33

  I know, I mean 'Select - Select Primary Only' way being consistent with 'Select by same... Variant position' way you suggested.
  Maybe the former was intended for one shot with dozens of variants, I don't know (I barely use variants, tbh).

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