11 Replies Latest reply: Jun 26, 2013 9:01 PM by areohbee RSS

    Why won't Lightroom delete files I tell it to?

    Nevada Shooter Community Member

      I have several Lightroom catalogs.  Most I rarely use because they contain photos I don't work with often.  I was using a couple of those catalogs yesterday and found that I could not delete photos from disk or remove the Lightroom entries in them.  The first time I came across was when I told it to remove the catalog entries for missing files.  It did nothing, no error message or anything.  The catalog entries are still there.  Later I edited a file in Photoshop.  The new file appeared in Lightroom as it should.  I later decided to delete that file from Lightroom.  Again, nothing happened,  no error messages.  It just did nothing.  I can go into Windows Explorer and delete the file there, but it will still show up in Lightroom and I cannot delete/remove the Lightroom entry.  I checked the Windows permissions and it appears that I have all the permissions to the catalog lrcat fill.  I am not an expert on permissions, so I might be missing something.  I can add files to the catalog and I can add Keywords, but I cannot "Delete from Disk" or "Remove" from the catalog.  I am not having these problems with the catalog I use everyday.  The problem catalogs where probably created under an older version of Lightroom, but wouldn't Lightroom automatically update the catalog when I open it in the new version of Lightroom?  I am using Lightroom 4.4 on a Windows 7 Sp1 machine with two Coreduo processors and 8GB of RAM.