Remove physically imagens that no included on catalog

[fabianoheringer]

Hey guys..
I have one catalog with 3 collections inside, the pictures of this collections are separated physically on my HD in different folders, so I need to remove some pictures that not added in any catalog or colletion but it are in my folders, with lightroom is possible to scan these pictures and remove that?

Thanks

 

[Denis Pagé]

Welcome to Lightroom Forums Fabian!

The easiest way is to select "All Photographs" select them all (Ctrl-A) and hit F2 to rename with a template. Preceeding filename with "_" can do or anything that you can remember. Then, in the file system (Windows Explorer), delete all not starting with "_". Back in Lightroom, you can rename back to "Original Filename".

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Hi Fabiano (have I got that right?), welcome to the forum!

So you want to be able to select all of the files that aren't in the catalog? I'd probably import them all, and then while they're all still in Previous Import, I'd Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Delete to delete them from the hard drive and the catalog at the same time.

 

[Roy Mathers]

I must say, I think Victoria's suggestion is the more elegant.