Remove from Collection greyed out - Delete image inconsistencies

[bwiese]

I just figured out why I could not delete/remove images from my collection while in Library mode, because they where in a "Collection Set". The "Remove from Collection" option was greyed out. Also, since I flagged the images from within the Collection Set, when I moved to the collection they flags where no longer there - so I could not filter out which images I wanted to delete. This was very frustrating.

I did realize I could use the keyboard keys to "remove from catalog" and "disk" which is what I wanted to do, but could not remove from the collection. I also could have moved to the "All Photographs" section of the Catalog on the left panel and probably deleted them from there, but that would have loaded a lot of images!

The plight of my search and discovery was documented on this blog:
http://dremer.org/articles/removing-from-collections-tip/

Thanks,
Brian

 

[Brad Snyder]

Brian, welcome to the forums.

Yes, that difference in available actions between folders and collections, as well as the 'non-global' nature of pick flags causes a lot of head-scratching. Those two 'features' are by design, and there's been a tremendous amount of verbiage written on both sides of both topics.

Thanks for the link.