Lightroom Ecosystem: "Trash" Functionality

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Lightroom CC: Please add "Recently Deleted" album.

Hello,

I love Lightroom CC, but there are still a few things missing. One of them is a "Recently Deleted" album. Ideally this would be where stuff you've deleted in the last 30 days would reside before being deleted permanently (or could be cleared out manually). Since LRCC seems to bypass the normal Trash/Recycle Bin folder, this would be great for making sure I don't accidentally delete something and then have no way of recovering it.

I'm waiting for a new version including such a basic/essential feature. 
Adobe is allowed to create a third software called Lightroom CC-DT (Deleted Trashed version) and ask 3 bucks more a month.

It's time Adobe! Thread is 8 months old and such a very very very basic feature is still not implemented...

This can be done easily and doesn't need more space. The deleted files can be added to the total space of an account and removed if the user decides to empty the trash. And if the trash is emptied, ah well, then the files are gone.
Just lost some files because of this. This experience is much more cumbersome than implementing the feature...

I agree completely. This is a major missing feature in my opinion.

We are aware that this is a top priority and we are working towards a solution. Thank you for your patience.

Barry

Well, I just lost a bunch of photos!!!  Imagine that Adobe doesn't really make it clear that there are no backups of your photos when you use Lightroom CC.  Lightroom Classic everything is synced, locally and when a file is deleted it goes in the trash.  But not with lightroom CC.  If you accidently delete a photo, its gone forever.  In my case I had run out of space and was trying to delete photos I had backed up, but there is no way to sort by exif data that I could find, and I accidently deleted too much.  no worry I thought, I'll go to assetts.adobe.com and recover the deleted files only to discover that lightroom isn't actually part of creative cloud, its a one off, that isn't integrated into the other apps.  

It is quite clear to me now that lightroom CC is not ready for prime time.  I will continue to use it as a toy so that I can take photos with my iphone, I'll continue to evaluate, but I just don't think it is ready yet.  There are too many gotchas with their syncing model.  I'll continue to use lightroom classic backed by dropbox.  But at least with Dropbox I can actually sync my files to an external drive for backup. 

I’m actually not sure the Trash model is the best route here. A history of actions and the ability to go back and selectively or completely undo would be more powerful (and somewhat more unique). Also, the ability to reveal deleted items anywhere (in any album, etc.) might be super useful. That said, at the minimum, a Trash album is definitely warranted. I also accidentally deleted the wrong photo, though I’m maintaining a separate, unsynced backup of my photos in a Lightroom Classic catalog, on top of local backups of my Lightroom CC originals, so I was able to easily recover. However, that didn’t stop a moment of panic.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Recently Deleted Folder.

Rather than simply deleting images, could we have an option to have a recently deleted folder like Apple Photos does, where images are retained for x number of days then auto deleted. This would solve accidental deletion of key images and with no backup (i.e. shot in LR CC iOS in-camera) would be lost forever!

Months, months months after launch, no idea if it will be implemented or not.

The only thing I can recommend is to backup frequently. Probably not suffisant but better than nothing

The Lightroom CC team has acknowledged the feature is missing and confirmed it is on their roadmap with top priority (see @Barry Young’s post above).


There is a *workaround* for the time being:

you can use the Lightroom downloader app to download a full resolution of all your photos stored in the creative cloud to a local drive:

https://lightroom.adobe.com/lightroom...


The last time I checked, the tool does not do a synchronization, meaning it does NOT delete the photos on disk when they are deleted on the cloud so if the downloader is run regularly, let’s say after you make significant changes to your catalog, it can be used as a safety net to recover photos that were deleted by mistake on the cloud.
If you add the downloader to your workflow and run it every time you upload to the creative cloud then it can be a way to have a backup of every single file you have uploaded to the creative cloud.

The downloader is smart enough to only download new photos when run on subsequent occasions so you won’t be downloading your entire catalog each time you run it, only the delta since the last run. It also seems to download edits.


Far from perfect but better than nothing until the team releases the true “undo delete” or “recently deleted” feature.

You need to objectivize the problem. 

Yes Barry Young’s post explain it is top priority.
But after 9 months!
And 2 more months after this post, what happen? Nothing.

And really. Are you happy to pay a whole 24 bucks/month to use 2 non compatible software and need a third one to backup something which is in the cloud.

What the point of this? Is this serious?


Are LR users happy to use this kind of gimmick for 288€/year?

This together with smart albums is my most critical missing feature. 

For now, I download originals to a drive on one of my computers and run an automated backup script that adds but doesn't not remove. Which means every photo ever imported ends up in the back-up and I can retrieve everything (but not my edits of course).

Maybe instead of a trash Adobe can implement a Time Machine like functionality where you can just go back in time in your library similar to how it works on macOS. 

Ultimately, Apple's functionality is also very basic (but much better then having no option at all).

Hurry up Adobe.... still two months before Christmas!

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Lightroom CC Feature Request: A Way to Recover Deleted Files.

I've just watched in horror as Lightroom CC deleted hundreds of images before my eyes (thanks due to a confused Lightroom Classic that didn't warn me a folder I was "Remove"-ing was a CC folder) and have discovered there is no way to recover them. 

That seems horrific; especially if you're uploading directly to CC as intended — there may be no other copies, as is the case with me.

So, feature request: CC should have an Apple-style "Recently Deleted" folder that allows images to be recovered for up to 30 days after deletion. CC is just far too risky without it.

Yes please add Trash functionality as soon as possible. This is just scary, we all have come to expect Trash/Recycle Bin/30 Days grace period to recover deleted files. Even free services like Google Photos and Apple Photos have 30 days to recover your photos.

Also I was able to delete my Lightroom library in a few clicks at Lightroom.adobe.com. While useful for fixing issues I was having, but really scary as it is so easy to delete 100sGB of photos in a few clicks. It should have grace time to recover it.

Finally, those who are interested in having another local backup, this is how I am doing my backups. Store files locally on external drive. Then run rsync job daily to copy those photos to NAS. Make sure rsync only copy new photos and not delete anything. Then once a month I manually run to rsync job with delete flag to remove deleted photos from backup location.

This way I can recover any accidentally photo but will lose edits. And tbh you should always have another backup of your photos in cloud that doesn’t automatically syncs. This way if Lightroom get corrupted and you will always have unedited local copies at least.

Agreeded and Voted!
After smart folders, this is my next want!