cleaning hard drive

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I have been removing photos from the catalog, thinking that I was also deleting them from the hard drive. I now realise that I was wrong, and wish to delete those photos from the hard drive. How can I identify those photos to delete them (without doing it all manually)?
 
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One way to find them all that should work is to Synchronize your catalog. They will show up to add. Let them add. They go into the previous import collection. Go there and mark them all rejected. go to the top folder and let it show all images, then do the delete rejected photos option and it will delete them all.

This seems a perverse approach, to add them back to the catalog in order to delete them, but it's probably the fastest way.

MAKE VERY SURE TO REVIEW THEM and make sure some are not added that you actually want, e.g. something accidentally deleted. You can review them all in the previous import collection first. Obviously do not do any other import until you resolve them all, as it will overwrite the prior import.
 
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Ferguson said:
One way to find them all that should work is to Synchronize your catalog. They will show up to add. Let them add. They go into the previous import collection. Go there and mark them all rejected. go to the top folder and let it show all images, then do the delete rejected photos option and it will delete them all.

This seems a perverse approach, to add them back to the catalog in order to delete them, but it's probably the fastest way.
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This is a good suggestion .... provided ALL the caveats are understood and followed.

I suggest doing this folder by folder (at least initially) until you are comfortable with the process.
 
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With 'Synchronize your catalog' Ferguson means that you select the top most folder, right click on it and choose 'Synchronize Folder'. If you have more than one top folder, then do this whole process folder by folder, because the 'Previous Import' collection gets updated each time you synchronize a folder.
 
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