Lightroom 3 - Deleting over 100 files?

[stokes]

So ive just gone through my 20k something files in lightroom and decided to have a good clean out before i move the files over to my new machine.

I have a fair few photos to delete, around 1.5k of photos and have just marked them all as rejected. I've gone to delete them and nothing happens.....

When i select under 100 of them, say 90 i can delete fine...

Is there a safety cut off built into lightroom somewhere that wont allow you to delete over 100 files in one hit?

Or is my lightroom playing silly buggers?

 

[Craikeybaby]

I've never noticed that. Are you using CMD-Del (I think, not at my Mac to test) to delete all rejected images?

 

[PsiFox]

Have a look here particularly the post at 7:35

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3165268

 

[stokes]

so without a bit of jiggery pokery its not possible? Ive read that post and people seem pretty angry about it

 

[smooth]

Holy thread revival!

Just ran into this very problem. It is because of a publishing service(s) using some of the files you are attempting to delete.

I just deleted temporarily my flickr publishing service, and hey presto it let me delete 1.5k of pictures without having to do in batches of 100.

Hope that helps someone.

 

[stokes]

Thanks for that! We got there in the end

 

[smooth]

No worries - glad to be of assistance.