Deleting photo in only one gallery

SuzPhotosSuzPhotos Registered Users Posts: 67 Big grins

I have a private pending gallery where I upload photos to be "collected" to other more appropriate galleries. When I am done doing that, I want to delete the photos in the Pending Gallery, so I can upload more to move around. It seems when I delete a photo in the Pending Gallery, it also deletes the photo in the other galleries. Is there a way to only delete a photo in one gallery without deleting in the other galleries. As always, your help is greatly appreciated.

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,893 moderator

    If you delete the source of a pic that has been collected, the collected versions are also deleted. But if you delete a collected version, the original stays intact, as do other collected instances. So you should probably upload to a different private gallery, then collect the pic into your pending gallery. Think the scheme through carefully before you implement it--the organizer does not give you any indication that a source pic has been collected elsewhere, which makes it hard to keep things straight.

  • SuzPhotosSuzPhotos Registered Users Posts: 67 Big grins

    Thank you for your advice. I will look into that. So if I understand you correctly. I should create another private gallery, upload photo to that and then collect them into the pending gallery. So then if I delete the ones in the pending gallery, the original ones in the private gallery and the collected photos will be intact. Am I understanding you correctly?

  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,893 moderator
    edited June 23, 2018

    Yes, that's correct. That's how I manage a number of my more active SM galleries--one private gallery for uploads and another public collected one for display.

    One thing you might want to test is the following: You upload the pic into gallery A. Then collect it into gallery B. Then while you're in gallery B you collect it into gallery C from galley B. Now you delete it from gallery B. It will still be in gallery A but is it still in gallery C? I think the answer is yes, but I'm not altogether sure, so try the experiment and let us know what you find. But if you delete it from A, it will disappear from both B and C, I think.

  • leftquarkleftquark Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,784 Many Grins

    Is there a reason you use collect instead of just move out of the pending folder?

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  • SuzPhotosSuzPhotos Registered Users Posts: 67 Big grins

    I didn't see an option to move. Is it in the same cluster as Collect?

  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,007 Major grins

    When you drag a photo to the gallery in the left tree a popup appears with "move" and "collect" in it.

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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,167 moderator

    Another option is to "Make a Copy" of a photo, and then move that (or a group of copied photos) into another gallery(s). At that point it doesn't matter if you nuke a copy somewhere later, as the original and any other copies are unaffected. I often don't remember which photo was the original, so if I use the copy option, I can't screw it up.

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,893 moderator

    Hmmm...I thought the Make a Copy option was long gone in SM. I used to use it, but now use Collect instead. I suppose you can upload multiple copies if you want, but that takes a lot of time.

    BTW, I just did an experiment and multiple collected copied behave as I thought...if you collect a previously collected copy and delete the earlier one, the latter one remains intact until you delete the original, uploaded pic, which causes all collected copies to go away.

  • denisegoldbergdenisegoldberg Administrators Posts: 14,220 moderator
    edited June 24, 2018

    @Richard said:
    Hmmm...I thought the Make a Copy option was long gone in SM. I used to use it, but now use Collect instead.

    I still see Make a Copy in the tools selection from Lightbox.
    It seems odd to me that the same option doesn't seem to be in Organizer.

  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,893 moderator

    @denisegoldberg said:
    I still see Make a Copy in the tools selection from Lightbox.
    It seems odd to me that the same option doesn't seem to be in Organizer.

    You're right--I never thought to look there. I wonder whether that's a bug or a feature?

  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,007 Major grins

    Make a Copy is in the tools drop menu in a Smugmug style gallery and also in lightbox tools drop menu.

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  • SuzPhotosSuzPhotos Registered Users Posts: 67 Big grins

    Okay, here is what I did! I went into Lightroom and selected the photos I wanted in Smug, put them all in Pending, then selected them all and moved them into the gallery I had just created. The Pending gallery is now empty. The one thing I DON'T like is you can't just select a few. So if I have some various ones that belong in different galleries, I can't select just a few. It's all or nothing at all.

  • SuzPhotosSuzPhotos Registered Users Posts: 67 Big grins

    In the Pending gallery (my private one), if I upload (from Lightroom or from my computer), it won't let me select just a few. It's all or nothing at all. So now when I put photos in the Pending gallery, I make sure they are meant for one other gallery so I can move them all in one fell swoop. That worked for me.

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