Deleting multiple virtual copies

philwizzer123

Member Location: Kent UK Joined: Dec 31, 2013 08:42 Messages: 62 Offline

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Jun 12, 2015 18:24

I have inadvertantly created a large number of virtual copies for a lot of photos. Any ideas how I can delete these in multiples rather than one by one?

PIX

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 21, 2011 00:02 Messages: 2910 Offline

Jun 12, 2015 19:01

Hello philwizzer123,

By the time you read this you'd have probably worked it out for yourself

All you need to do is use Ctrl + click to select all the photos (virtual or not) that you wish to remove from the library. Then either right click & select Delete or press the Delete key on your keyboard.

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philwizzer123

Member Location: Kent UK Joined: Dec 31, 2013 08:42 Messages: 62 Offline

Jun 13, 2015 02:41

Thanks Pix
Yes I can do that but my virtual copies are across a large number of folders (about 5k photos) and so I was wondering if I could search but it doesn't seem to recognise 'virtual' in the file name.

Thanks

PIX

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 21, 2011 00:02 Messages: 2910 Offline

Jun 13, 2015 18:21

I'm sorry philwizzer123,

I can't see any way around that problem

If you haven't done too much editing yet, one option might be to delete that project and start again... importing the same photos.

Don't worry. We've all "inadvertently" done things that end up costing us time.

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