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- Lightroom Version Number
- 8.3.1
- Operating System
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
My workflow involves rejecting any photos I don't want in a folder, then I go back and hit "CMD + Delete", get a question about whether I want to just remove the photos from LR or delete them from the disk, I choose delete. Over the past 2-3 weeks the CMD + Delete shortcut had quit working in Lightroom - and only in Lightroom. This was driving me crazy, I use the shortcut all the time. I tried lots of different things to try to isolate and solve the problem:
I finally did a search that did not include the word "Lightroom" and discovered that other Mac users were experiencing the same problem in Finder. The solution was to add a different shortcut (as I did with CMD +D) and assign it to the menu item where it's not working, then go back and delete the newly created shortcut. Weird, but it also worked for me in Lightroom.
- I could still go to "Photo-Delete Rejected Photo" in the LR menu system (which still lists CMD+Delete as the shortcut) and it worked fine.
- Other shortcuts that used those keys worked fine so it didn't seem to be an issue with my keyboard, including using just the Delete key to delete a single photo.
- I tried deleting a file in Finder, which uses the CMD+Delete shortcut to delete a single file. It worked.
- I created a different keyboard shortcut (CMD+D) for LR using the Mac system preferences ->keyboard options; that shortcut worked. When I tried to add the delete key instead of a D in the shortcut in the Mac shortcut preferences I got the same "won't work" sound that I get when I try to use the shortcut in LR.
- I have an expanded keyboard; If I pressed CMD+Delete+Delete (Backspace) the shortcut worked in Lightroom.
I finally did a search that did not include the word "Lightroom" and discovered that other Mac users were experiencing the same problem in Finder. The solution was to add a different shortcut (as I did with CMD +D) and assign it to the menu item where it's not working, then go back and delete the newly created shortcut. Weird, but it also worked for me in Lightroom.
