SubscribeAnyone who works with Adobe Lightroom knows that it can be pretty frustrating at times. While it’s a great image editor, there are some things that just don’t make much sense to me. One of those things is deleting files.
Deleting a file, Removing Rejected photos, removing from catalog—all of these things simply remove the photo from Lightroom’s library but leave the large files on your hard drive, eating away valuable space.
The easiest way to remedy this situation is to do what some people call splat delete. Highlight the photo(s) you want to permanently send into oblivion and press:
Common + Option + Shift +Delete (Mac)
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Backspace (PC)
Though this mostly solves the issue, there is still one more hiccup. Say you want to splat delete a dozen photos. You have them selected and yet when you try to splat delete, it only gets rid of one at a time. Make sure you’re in Grid view, not viewing one photo at a time.
Problem solved!
