@pbar I just did some tests which appeared to show that your post was incorrect, BUT I was accessing the directory directly by browsing with PL831.
Edit:- To cut a long story short (contained in “excruciating detail” below) it is because the VC is created for an ‘External Selection’ image please see Remove virtual copy? - #30 by BHAYT for additional information and for some reason DxPL decides that entries for an ‘External Selection’ cannot be ‘Removed’.
So I downloaded a copy of BreezeBrowser (it is way too expensive for what it offers, I believe XnViewMP offers way better value for money but …) but back to the point I attempted to pass a collection of images to from Breezebrowser and only one made it!
This is a problem with FastStone Image browser when only the last image makes it to DxPL. in the case of BreezeBrowser, two attempts at passing a group of images failed and I just wound up with one in DxPL and a different one each time!?
Ignoring BreezeBrowsers foibles, and my prejudices, you appear to be correct when the images are part of an 'External Collection 'i.e. I cannot remove a VC in either the ‘PhotoLibrary’ or the ‘Customize’ screens.
I also used FastRawViewer to pass the entire directory and that worked fine but also ran into the same problem.
In ‘PhotoLibrary’:-
In ‘Customize’:-
So with ‘External Selections’ it appears to be impossible to ‘Remove’ a VC or the [M]aster
@John-M I am at a loss to explain this so I created a ‘Project’ (‘External Selections’ are “sort of” a ‘Project’) from the images in the directory.
Attempting to delete the VC (and the [M]aster from the project is O.K.
@pbar Please make a support request and as why this “bug” is present.
PS:- Peter, BreezeBrowser’s (BB) Raw viewing is excruciatingly slow even on my 5900X, as it is with FastStone (FSIV), but way faster with FastRawViewer (FRV).
But neither FastStone nor FastRawViewer have the metadata handling of BB but XnViewMP does, I believe, and both XnViewMP and FRV can pass large numbers of images to DxPL at the same time (up to about 350 according to some tests I did along time ago).
However, your workflow is based around BB and none of the programs get round the issue you reported.
PPS:-
There is a two fields difference between a ‘Project’ and an ‘External Collection’
and DxPL is prepared to let me delete from the ‘Project’ but not from the ‘External Selection’
