deleting entries in catalog

[herb]

Ok, I am beginning to learn LR, after only 2 months of frustrating effort. I have been cleaning up a lot of old files, and want to remove their listing and previews from lightroom's catalog. I use one giant catalog named "pictures", and then have titles like "Bayboro Scenes" for a folder, which will have a lot of images, maybe even sub/sub folders.
I don't see an option to delete the main heading in Catalog listings, where I might have 3'' listings under "pictures", and when I trash a listing, it remains, showing ' photos in it.

Must be simple, but this program is not designed for us geezers.

Thanks

 

[dj_paige]

Terminology is important, and can be a barrier.

Lightroom has Catalogs, Collections, Smart Collections, Folders, Keywords and of course, photos. It does not have Listings. Exactly which Lightroom structure are you referring to with the word "Listing"?

 

[Victoria Bampton]

So you mean you've trashed the pictures, and you've removed those pictures from LR so that the folder shows ', but the folder's still there? Select it and press the - button at the top of the filters panel, or right-click on it and choose Remove.

 

[herb]

hooray for Victoria.

Thanks

Herb