When browsing through a large number of files before actually starting to process them, deleting them became unnecessary tiring with PL8. Before the upgrade I used PL6 on my Mac and deleting the currently marked file(s) was just a matter of hitting the “delete” button on the keyboard, followed by “enter”. Now the “Are you sure?” popup does not have the focus when popping up and so it forces me to use the mouse or touch pad to confirm. This is annoying when you are just checking 2000+ pictures and want to keep only the best 20% of them. Why was the simple and effective user interaction from PL6 changed? Bring it back to PL8 please!
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Unfortunately, PL was never really intended to handle such large numbers of files.
I would ask why aren’t you using Finder in icon view to do a pre-sort?
The changed behavior of the popup is annoying also with a small number of images, so using the finder for pre-sorting is a workaround for some cases, but not a solution. I just don’t get why a user-friendly behavior (like in PL6) was replaced with such a weird implementation. Even if I would only want to get rid of 60% out of 300 images, this would drive me crazy as it slows keyboard usage massively down.
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My guess is that they have several requests from folks who accidentally select all images and end up losing everything.
If you select only virtual copies, the correct default button is enabled and hitting enter will execute the deletion.
If you select master images, there is always the possibility that you will end up with the image file in the system trash, which, had you also selected virtual copies, may not have been what you wanted.
This is one of those occasions where DxO are damned if they allow the default button and damned if they don’t. There will always be this who don’t like whatever they decide. They have erred on the side of “safety” on trying to prevent folks accidentally deleting their precious master files.
The only way around this that I can see is to have a check box on the dialog to enable remembering of the user’s preference.
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That would get my vote.
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Which serious user would actually work with the one and only master RAW file in DxO? Isn’t a good workflow starting by copying RAW files from the memory card(s) to the computers’ internal drive or some external SSD? So in case some mishap leads to deleted RAWs, then you can always just grab your memory card and fetch the file from there. Only when all the sorting, editing and exporting is done, the memory cards are emptied in order to be used again for the next shoot.
So either please make the deletion confirmation popup configurable in general or at least add a checkbox like “don’t ask me again during this session”.
My workflow typically is to mark the pictures that I don’t want as rejected, and then when I’m done, I use the filter to display only the rejected pictures. I mark them all and delete, that way you only have to confirm one time. Also it is faster, as you only need to press the reject shortcut instead of delete and enter.
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Unfortunately it’s probably the case.
But why do the users who pay attention at what they are doing correctly have to pay for those who delete without caution ?
I’m not deleting one by one but it’s also very disturbing.
And in any case, they can retrieve them from the dustbin.
I’ve already asked DxO to come back to previous behavior, without success till now.
I do hope also to have at least a preference choice to choose the reminder or not.
@esolara , don’t forget to vote for this request.
my way round this is two fold.
I use. fast. raw viewer to only select the files directly from the card I want on my laptop and import into folder.
I then will DXO PL8 in full screen viewer I will tag any more rejects with the red tag and then at then end sort view to only showing discarded (red tag) images batch salect and delete
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