Quote Originally Posted by DLS


I forgot to ask you about your importing workflow. Do you transfer the .CR2 files from your CF card to a folder on the internal HD first, then import into LR3? Or do you import right from the CF card? I'm pretty sure you


If you import right from the CF card you are not given the option to "add" when importing to LR3 - just "copy as DNG" or "copy". If you import from a folder in the internal (or external) HD, you have all four import options available.


That being said...


Yes - even if you've imported the originals using the "add" option in the import dialog, youcan delete a photo from the catalog and the hard disk. You must be viewing the photo, however, from the "Folders" pulldown menu in the Left panel in the Library Module. If the photo happens to be in a collection and you are viewing it from there, and you hit "delete" there will be no delete dialog giving you a choice....it will just delete the photo from that particular collection - the photo will still be in the catalog.





Thanks for the follow up Damian.


I transfer the .CR2 files from the CF card to a folder on my hard disk, and then I choose an import setting in Aperture called, "store the files in their current (original) location."


It seems to make sense what your saying, because if you import the files directly into LR then that would represent the only location for those files so therefore when you delete them, they are essentially deleted from the disk as well as the Library since they are only in that one location.


So essentially what you have discovered is that if I would like to store the files in a folder on the hard disk and then add them to the library, then I will be able to delete them from the hard disk and the library, as long as I'm doing this from the library and not from the collections. That makes sense to me.


Thanks Again!


Rich