Difference Between Remove Download !EXCLUSIVE! And Delete From Library

I have an iTunes Match subscription. When I went to delete some songs to free up some storage on my MacBook a few weeks ago, after the latest major iTunes update, I noticed that the menu options for the tracks had changed. In addition to the familiar "Delete" option was the new "Remove Download" option. What's the difference between the two options? Before the major update, I would use Delete to free up storage space. When I hit Delete, the file went to the Trash Bin and the Album stayed in my iTunes library with the little cloud symbol now present. I've tried the Remove Download option but the files never show up in the Trash Bin. I'd love to know what specifically is going on here. Thanks!

Remove download = delete from library but keep in cloud. The file should be moves to trash but on some occasions if have noticed that the file has remained in its original location. Are your files still in their original location Or have completely disappeared.

Difference Between Remove Download And Delete From Library

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Then select "Remove Download" to remove from cloud or "Delete Item" to delete completely. In both options the original file should be move to trash - you no longer have option to move to trash when you use iTunes match or Apple music.

I have been playing around with this all day and cannot figure out how this is working. I am doing "remove download" and sometimes the file goes to the trash, sometimes it stays put, and sometimes it completely vanishes. So, yes, I am experiencing the same weird behavior as you. How it should work is that "remove download" moves the file to the trash, but the song remains in your iTunes library, whereas "delete" moves the song to the trash and removes it from your iTunes library.

I can't make sense of this either. Used to be easy. Now I'm seeing my own cd rips vanish from my pc hard drive every time I try to remove them from the cloud. Sometimes they go to the recycle bin, sometimes just gone. The remove but "keep file" option will still sometimes randomly pop up, but rare. Very frustrating. The message that the files will be removed from my devices appears no matter which option I choose, but apparently my pc is now considered a device too, although computers are not mentioned in the warning. Frustrating to the point that I gotta figure I'm just doing something wrong. No Apple Music sub either.

I Suggest that if you wish to delete tracks from the cloud but keep them on your hard drive, create a second library that shows what you have in the cloud. If you delete from this library, the iCloud status in your original library will show as "removed".

Just experienced this. A favorite recording at 320KBS was deleted from my hard drive. It was replaced with a 256KB/s "cloud" version. Thankfully I had a backup, but it is too easy to delete original rips. Very dangerous and I don't like it!

Out of curiosity... do your files actually go to the 'trash' when you select 'remove download'? I have been doing this to clear up space on my HDD but not once have i seen the files end up in the 'trash'. They are however missing from the local itunes media folder. I'm trying to figure out what's going on here. Are the files being deleted/overwritten? Or are they secretly hiding somewhere in an unknown Apple file structure???

There is a difference between "purchased content" (i.e. media that originated from iTunes and is therefore available for re-download) vs. media that I've obtained outside of iTunes which I've manually added to iTunes: the "Remove Download" option only exists with purchased content.

This menu option exists only with purchased content. Choosing this removed the file from my hard disk drive (HDD) immediately without moving the file to the Trash/Recycle Bin. (If you have chosen to "Show iCloud Purchases", the track will remain visibly listed and a cloud icon will appear in the iCloud Download column.)

I was deleting songs from my library to save space and when I tapped delete, it gave me the option to either "Delete from My Music" or "Remove Download". What do they do? I do not use iTunes Match and I am not a member of Apple Music.

Besides the above steps, you can also tap & hold over the Music app icon from the Home Screen and pick Remove App > Delete App > Delete. This will uninstall the Music app from your iPhone or iPad, and with that, it will also delete all the downloaded music files. You can reinstall the Apple Music app at any time from the App Store by searching for it or using this link.

I am working on Windows 10 and have been a Lightroom user and Adobe CC user since the beginning. I have over 200,000 raw files imported into Lightroom. When "Collections" was added I immediately added unique collections to my Lightroom image structure and workflow. I always include at least one collection (Date / Country / State / City) in every import. I have been doing all of my editing directly in collections ever since. This includes rating my pictures. The good thing is that I see the lightroom edits in my DNG files regardless of where I am viewing them from. The frustrating thing is that I can delete files from the disk or remvoe them from the library in both the disk location and library location in Lightroom. However, I cannot delete from the disk when editing or reviewing files from my collections. I can only remove them from the collection. This has left thousands of unwanted DNG files on my disk.

Please note: there is no warning dialog box that could serve as a prevention from accidentally deleting the wrong photos. When you do the Splat Delete, the photo is immediately and without warning removed from Lightroom Class and from your hard disk. So if you select the wrong photo, and then Splat Delete ... sorry, it's gone, no sympathy from us, you need to use this with extreme caution (or, in my opinion, don't do Splat Delete at all, delete from the All Photographs view).

Thank you DJ, I really appreciate your answer and I completely agree with your advice. When doing event work I will sometimes take hundreds of pictures. I frequently select two images and view them in Library using the Compare view. Then, I decide if I want to remove the bad one from the collecteion while foregetting that I still have both selected. I do not want to admit how many times I have used Ctrl+Z when realizing that both have disapeared. This is why it is so important that Adobe adds this feature request. Hopefully you support me.

I've been using your procedure, John, and the answer in Lightroom Classic when I do this is "photos removed from collection." Does this remove the duplicates from my cloud location and hard drive, or just remove them from the Lightroom catalog? Thanks, Richard Herndon

I take that to mean the original image file gets removed from the disk on the Computer where LrC is installed. When that happens all Collections, Smart Collections, and Smart-Previews that exist on your computer and Adobe Creative Cloud will be deleted and Synced devices Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Mobile will no longer have access to the images.

In Lightroom Classic there is one original file, if that file is deleted from disk it is gone, or if you remove it from your LrC Catalog, all things that depend on it for existance, Collections (an original file can be in several collections) Previews, Smart-Previews on your computer or Creative Cloud storage, and Data in your Catalog file will be deleted.

However, @johnrellis really put forth two ideas. He said "Rejected (type "x"), and then periodically do Photo > Delete Rejected Photos". If you do Photo>Delete Rejected Photos after you type X, then the photo is deleted from your LrC catalog (which also means it will disappear from photos synched to the Adobe cloud). I don't remember if this causes the photos to be deleted from the hard disk. If you still want information on whether or not this deletes photos from the hard disk, please do an experiment, take a few worthless photos and try it on them and come back here and let us know.

Which brings me back to something I said earlier in this thread. Please don't be hasty to delete photos from LrC and from your hard disk. Please be CAUTIOUS when you do this. We have seen too many people in this forum who have deleted photos and later they realize they have made a mistake.

An alternative, very fast workflow is to mark photos as Rejected (type "x"), and then periodically go to All Photographs and then do Photo > Delete Rejected Photos. You will be presented with the standard prompt, asking if you want to remove from just the catalog or from disk also:

If I delete it found in the Album, it still keeps the photo in the Library, so in order to delete it completely - I have to search for it in the Library and delete it from there - it is very inconvenient.

Deleting photos from an album only deletes them from that album, not from the library or from any other albums they are in (A photo can belong to more than one album). Deleting photos from the library removes them completely from the library as well as all the albums they are in.

You can confirm this by looking at the context menu: if you right-click to pull up the menu for one or more photos, then hit command while the menu is visible, you will see the "remove photo from album" menu item change to "delete photo". Also, if you select one or more photos and click on the Image menu, then hit command while that menu is visible, you will see the "remove photo from album" menu item change to "delete photo" and the associated keyboard shortcut icons change from delete to Command-Delete.

I just discovered this by accident as I'm used to hitting Command-Delete in Finder to remove files and was shocked to notice the photos I was removing from albums were also being deleted from the library. Fortunately we can choose either behavior. 006ab0faaa