How Do I Delete Rejects?
I’ve very much enjoyed reading our articles about Aperture. You obviously know you’re way around the program. Have you come up with a system to quickly delete rejects? The Aperture manual doesn’t even talk about deleting rejects. The method I’m using I find painfully slow. Presently I select an image, hit the #9 key and mark it as a reject. I then select view all rejects. I highlight all of them and then go to File>Delete Master and all Versions. It then deletes the last image I selected, not all the ones highlighted. I have to follow up and delete each image individually. I want to love this program but It’s difficult due to how hard it is to get rid of bad images easily. It’s obvious Apple doesn’t want this to happen since they don’t even have anything about deleting rejects in the PDF manual which I searched. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated and maybe this is a good idea for an article. Thanks in advance.
What you are missing is that you have Primary Only turned on. It's very easy to do this by accident because the shortcut is the S key. Here is the button:
If turned on, whatever you do will only affect the primary (thick white outline) image, not all the others (thin white outline). Here are six images in the viewer (not thumbnails -- just a very small viewer pane) with Primary Only turned off:
And here is primary Only turned on. Notice that only the primary is shown with a line around:
Here are two ways of deleting rejects, each with its own advantages and disadvantages:
Delete Rejects In The Current Project or Album
Press keys in this sequence: Control 8, Command A, Command Delete, Return.
Control 8 shows just the rejects, removing any other filter in use. Command A selects all of them. Command Delete deletes them. Return accepts the dialog box. And the state of the Primary Selection Only does not matter to Command Delete. There is a catch with this method of deleting though -- this will not delete rejects that are inside stacks. But the second method below gets those too.
Delete Rejects In The Entire Library
I have a smart album that I set up to delete rejects across the entire library:
Notice that it was created with the Library selected so it applies across all projects. And that the Ignore Stack Grouping is checked. That lets it look inside stacks and means that I don't have to mess with opening and closing stacks all over to clear out the rejects.
I select the smart album, then command A, command Delete, Return. It can be good to command option B before all that to maximize the browser in order to give the images one last check.
What you are missing is that you have Primary Only turned on. It's very easy to do this by accident because the shortcut is the S key. Here is the button:
If turned on, whatever you do will only affect the primary (thick white outline) image, not all the others (thin white outline). Here are six images in the viewer (not thumbnails -- just a very small viewer pane) with Primary Only turned off:
And here is primary Only turned on. Notice that only the primary is shown with a line around:
Here are two ways of deleting rejects, each with its own advantages and disadvantages:
Delete Rejects In The Current Project or Album
Press keys in this sequence: Control 8, Command A, Command Delete, Return.
Control 8 shows just the rejects, removing any other filter in use. Command A selects all of them. Command Delete deletes them. Return accepts the dialog box. And the state of the Primary Selection Only does not matter to Command Delete. There is a catch with this method of deleting though -- this will not delete rejects that are inside stacks. But the second method below gets those too.
Delete Rejects In The Entire Library
I have a smart album that I set up to delete rejects across the entire library:
Notice that it was created with the Library selected so it applies across all projects. And that the Ignore Stack Grouping is checked. That lets it look inside stacks and means that I don't have to mess with opening and closing stacks all over to clear out the rejects.
I select the smart album, then command A, command Delete, Return. It can be good to command option B before all that to maximize the browser in order to give the images one last check.
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