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ColMac9090

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Lightroom Version Number
15.6
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  1. Windows 11
My editing is minimal. I crop a lot and adjust colours a bit and in the last year or so have done much more with masking. But I've never gone near to useing all my AI credits. So I was wondering about deleting my edit history in bulk.

As far as I can see, all I lose is the ability to tweak any such edits I have made in the past - a practice I virtually never use in any event.


But


Even if I do want to re-edit/tweak a photo, the number of new tools in Lightroom & Photoshop (& Camera Raw) mean that there are usually much better ways to edit a photo than existed even a year ago. Many of these of course now involve AI.

I have just lost approx. 2 days because of major sync issues with LrC (15.6). In the end after much faffing around, I needed to reinstall LrC twice, create a new catalog import the old one etc, all of which cost a lot of time.


My catalog is now 1.2Gb, and whilst I know this is far from big in LrC terms it still does have a performance hit. That and I'm anxious to avoid any further sync issues, so having a smaller cleaner catalog seems desirable (and yes I do know it is not necessary)

As far as I can see, the ability to delete (bulk) history seems to have been removed. Is this correct? I did try a forum search, but so far haven't found anything related
 
Solution
Paul McFarlane
To clear the history for multiple photos, select the photos and then go to Develop menu > Clear History. Lightroom will then check this is what you want to do.
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To clear the history for multiple photos, select the photos and then go to Develop menu > Clear History. Lightroom will then check this is what you want to do.
 
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ColMac9090 said:
As far as I can see, all I lose is the ability to tweak any such edits I have made in the past
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Erasing your history doesn't remove your edits. All it does is remove the list of edits and the order in which you made them. Your changes still show in the panels on the right side of the Develop module. If you want to change a slider value in the future, you can still do it.
 
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ColMac9090 said:
...done much more with masking. But I've never gone near to using all my AI credits.
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Note that the only command in LR Classic that uses AI credits is File > Generate Using Firefly. All the other AI commands don't use credits.
 
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