Lightroom - show unedited photos?
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Potentially a daft question here, but I've got a disk space issue on my Windows 7 laptop (a 100Gb disk will do that) - upgrading the disk isn't an option (it's a works machine).
Having hunted around, it seems that photos are taking up a lot of disk space - I know I've shot a lot of RAW photos that I've not edited, the problem being finding those that haven't been edited and getting rid of them (if I've not edited a RAW photo 6 months ago because it's not good enough, I'll never do it).
I know that I should have deleted the RAW photos in the first place, but hindsight and all that...
So, is there a way in Lightroom that I can filter out those photos that I've not edited so I can remove them?
Thanks
JTW
Having hunted around, it seems that photos are taking up a lot of disk space - I know I've shot a lot of RAW photos that I've not edited, the problem being finding those that haven't been edited and getting rid of them (if I've not edited a RAW photo 6 months ago because it's not good enough, I'll never do it).
I know that I should have deleted the RAW photos in the first place, but hindsight and all that...
So, is there a way in Lightroom that I can filter out those photos that I've not edited so I can remove them?
Thanks
JTW
jr502 said:
I know it's a bit late now, but I tend to use the 'flag' option once I've imported a load, and only flag the keepers.
Nowadays I delete the ones I'm binning....Simpo Two said:
I'd just shove them in a folder called 'Unedited' in Windows Explorer. But that's probably far too easy 
From Lightroom?The trouble is that of the many RAW photos there are in LR, I've only edited a fraction of those and sifting through them all would take a while - some I remember, some I don't.
On top of that, there are some where I want to keep the JPGs, but not RAW.
I do, however, suspect that I'm probably going to end up doing this manually....
james_tigerwoods said:
From Lightroom?
I deleted my post because I realised it didn't answer your question, but as you spotted it (curses!) then no, probably not from Lightroom. I bloody hate smart-alec software that tries to take over my photos and catalogue them and library them and and grade them into pretty colours and make them into bloody slideshows.An image file is just a file on a hard drive. But let Lightroom etc do it for you and you have no idea where your damn photos actually are, or whether you're working with a copy or the original, or whether when you delete it from LR you're deleting a copy, a thumbnail or the original file. (LR experts probably do but I got mad before that)
I bloody hate Lightroom!
Simpo Two said:
james_tigerwoods said:
From Lightroom?
I deleted my post because I realised it didn't answer your question, but as you spotted it (curses!) then no, probably not from Lightroom. I bloody hate smart-alec software that tries to take over my photos and catalogue them and library them and and grade them into pretty colours and make them into bloody slideshows.An image file is just a file on a hard drive. But let Lightroom etc do it for you and you have no idea where your damn photos actually are, or whether you're working with a copy or the original, or whether when you delete it from LR you're deleting a copy, a thumbnail or the original file. (LR experts probably do but I got mad before that)
I bloody hate Lightroom!
t).I suspect that I'll be removing these manually - it'll be a laborious (sp) task
I don't think there's a way to automatically select unedited photos.
The way I'd do it is to go to the directory from which you want to delete the photos (choose "show photos in subfolders" if there's more than one folder) and look for photos that don't have the "photo has develop adjustments" badge displayed. This is the one that looks a bit like the exposure compensation icon on a camera; you may have to switch the badges on to see them. Also, if you only want to delete unedited photos from a certain date range, or ones taken on a certain camera, you can add a filter for that.
Now that you can see which photos haven't had Lightroom adjustments made (note that it won't tell you if the photo's been edited by another program), you'll have to go through them manually and use the keyboard shortcuts to add either a flag, colour, or rating to the ones you want to delete. Once you've completed this, filter to show only photos with the flag, colour or rating you used, then select all and delete (or if you use the "rejected" flag, you don't need to bother with the filter, just press "delete rejected photos").
The way I'd do it is to go to the directory from which you want to delete the photos (choose "show photos in subfolders" if there's more than one folder) and look for photos that don't have the "photo has develop adjustments" badge displayed. This is the one that looks a bit like the exposure compensation icon on a camera; you may have to switch the badges on to see them. Also, if you only want to delete unedited photos from a certain date range, or ones taken on a certain camera, you can add a filter for that.
Now that you can see which photos haven't had Lightroom adjustments made (note that it won't tell you if the photo's been edited by another program), you'll have to go through them manually and use the keyboard shortcuts to add either a flag, colour, or rating to the ones you want to delete. Once you've completed this, filter to show only photos with the flag, colour or rating you used, then select all and delete (or if you use the "rejected" flag, you don't need to bother with the filter, just press "delete rejected photos").
It's a diagonally split black and grey square with contrasting plus and minus symbols that is displayed in the corner of photos on the film strip and in the library grid view. If it's not present on the photos that you have made adjustments to, you need to turn badges on. To turn them on in the film strip: right click on the film strip > "view options" > "show badges". To turn them on in the library grid view: right click on the library grid area > click "view options..." > click the "thumbnail badges" tickbox.
Try creating a smart collection. That has options for filtering on 'Has Adjustments' (true/false) and 'Edit Date' (set it to 'is not in' whenever). Note that 'Has Adjustments' may not catch everything if you apply a preset on import, like I do.
I'd suggest filtering on 'edit date is not in the last 6 months', and add 'Pick flag is not flagged' (or 'Rating is less than two stars' or something). Anyway, the thing is to get a collection of everything that hasn't been edited in the last six months. Run through that collection and flag (or rate at least 2 stars) any images that you want to keep. Because of the second clause, when you do that, they'll be removed from the collection. Once you've kept everything that you want, delete everything in the collection. The nice thing about this is that the collection will still exist and will start to fill up again as time goes on, and more pictures go 6 months without an edit. Just go back to it every now and again and clear out the collection.
I'd suggest filtering on 'edit date is not in the last 6 months', and add 'Pick flag is not flagged' (or 'Rating is less than two stars' or something). Anyway, the thing is to get a collection of everything that hasn't been edited in the last six months. Run through that collection and flag (or rate at least 2 stars) any images that you want to keep. Because of the second clause, when you do that, they'll be removed from the collection. Once you've kept everything that you want, delete everything in the collection. The nice thing about this is that the collection will still exist and will start to fill up again as time goes on, and more pictures go 6 months without an edit. Just go back to it every now and again and clear out the collection.
Do you have to do it in Lightroom?If the images are in a folder, try getting to the files via computer>relevant disk>relevant folder. View files as `detail` and sort by size. The biggest files will be your RAWs (unless you've been doing some odd things to the jpegs). You may need to uncheck the `hide file extensions for known file types` to make sure you get the right ones: tools>folder options>view on a PC.
Then just drag them off to the bin.
). You may need to uncheck the `hide file extensions for known file types` to make sure you get the right ones: tools>folder options>view on a PC.Then just drag them off to the bin.
I see your point, but some have been edited and some not, it's the removal of the old, unedited or unwanted RAW photos I'm trying to achieve - using explorer is a valid solution for folders if I can be sure I've not edited them.
Using lightroom to do this is the only logical way. Annoyingly.
Using lightroom to do this is the only logical way. Annoyingly.
Try this:
Create a smart collection with the field "Has Adjustments" set to False ie no edits add a second field "file name end in" set this to your raw extension (mine would be "cr2") - this should select all unedited files with a name ending in cr2
Once the collection is created select all the photos and add a new unique keyword tag eg "delete_today"
Move out of the smart collection back into normal library mode, selecting all photos then do a text search on "delete_today", you can then select all and delete the photos.
Hope this helps.
Number31
Create a smart collection with the field "Has Adjustments" set to False ie no edits add a second field "file name end in" set this to your raw extension (mine would be "cr2") - this should select all unedited files with a name ending in cr2
Once the collection is created select all the photos and add a new unique keyword tag eg "delete_today"
Move out of the smart collection back into normal library mode, selecting all photos then do a text search on "delete_today", you can then select all and delete the photos.
Hope this helps.
Number31
Number31 said:
Try this:
Create a smart collection with the field "Has Adjustments" set to False ie no edits add a second field "file name end in" set this to your raw extension (mine would be "cr2") - this should select all unedited files with a name ending in cr2
Once the collection is created select all the photos and add a new unique keyword tag eg "delete_today"
Move out of the smart collection back into normal library mode, selecting all photos then do a text search on "delete_today", you can then select all and delete the photos.
Hope this helps.
Number31
I like this plan - the backups will be trimmed too, they take up a LOT of room...Create a smart collection with the field "Has Adjustments" set to False ie no edits add a second field "file name end in" set this to your raw extension (mine would be "cr2") - this should select all unedited files with a name ending in cr2
Once the collection is created select all the photos and add a new unique keyword tag eg "delete_today"
Move out of the smart collection back into normal library mode, selecting all photos then do a text search on "delete_today", you can then select all and delete the photos.
Hope this helps.
Number31
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