2.1) RAW + JPEG: Deleting JPEG Files
Before you start this process, please do make a full backup of both your files and your Lightroom catalog! While the below procedure is not particularly risky if you properly follow it, you can still potentially mess things up! So please do make a full backup before you start the clean up process.
Here are the steps:
Before you start this process, please do make a full backup of both your files and your Lightroom catalog! While the below procedure is not particularly risky if you properly follow it, you can still potentially mess things up! So please do make a full backup before you start the clean up process.
Here are the steps:
- Make sure that JPEGs and RAWs are not treated separately. As show earlier in this article, make sure that you uncheck “Treat JPEG files next to raw files as separate photos”, as shown below:
This is needed for the initial import and synchronization of files. - Import images into Lightroom. Skip this step if you work with Lightroom already and you have one or more Lightroom catalogs. If you don’t have Lightroom installed and you want to clean up your RAW + JPEG images, you first need to import all the files into a new Lightroom catalog. I won’t go through the process of doing that in detail, but there is really not much to it – simply select the master folder that contains your files and make sure that on the top you have “Add” selected instead of the other options:
Once you do that, Lightroom will import all the photos and preserve your folder structure without copying or moving anything.
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