Re Magix Photostory Deluxe 2023 Ver 22.0.3.150.(UDP3)
When starting a new project, a few photos remain in the Media Pool from the previous project! I cannot delete these photos. Surely clicking on the image and hitting delete should do it. I tried right-clicking the image but it provided no options. How can I remove the pics?
I am on PC Windows 11 Pro 64 bit Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2288G CPU @ 3.70GHz 3.70 GHz 32.0 GB
Any help will be appreciated.
Danny
Hi
Photostory does not allow you to delete images via the Media Pool.
To remove them you have to use Windows File Explorer.
John EB
Forum Moderator
Hi,
OMG! It's a good thing that you cannot delete the files (photos/videos/audio) from the Media Pool under Import. They are the files that are on your hard drive and may or may not also be in your project. Only photos/videos/audio objects on the timeline or in Storyboard mode are in your project. You can remove these from the Timeline/Storyboard, but they do not get removed from your hard drive. When you import from the Media Pool to the timeline, the objects are still showing in the Media Pool, with a red dot, correct?
If you were able to delete these in the Media Pool they would be gone from your hard drive and then you would complain that the program "deleted my files." Same thing with folders.
The program just uses the files that are on your hard drive - the files themselves are never actually imported into the project - the project just notes the name and location of the file and uses it. The program never touches or modifies the file on your computer, but it always has to be there.
If you were to import a photo to Photostory, save the project, go out, go to Windows Explorer, delete that photo from your hard drive and then reopen your project in Photostory, you would get a message that it can't find the photo and asking you to navigate to where it is. Well, you deleted it from your hard drive, so now it's gone and you'll never get it to show in Photostory.
I hope that you now understand what those files are in the Media Pool.
John CB
Hello Danny,
It is indeed possible to delete movie and photo files in Windows Explorer. Be careful!! If you delete your movie and photo files this way, they will be deleted from your hard drive and copied to the recycle bin.
This is how you delete them. Select the files you want to delete and click on Del. You will now get the question: "A number of marked files except internal project files. Do you want to delete the names of these files as well?" Yes - Only selected files - Cancel
You can also delete them this way. Right-click on the file to be deleted and then choose Delete.
HTH
Rob
Hello John,
You are right that it is not possible to delete files in Photo Explorer mode. I still prefer to work in the old view and there you do have the possibility.
Quote @browj2 (John EB)
.....It is a good thing that you cannot delete the files (photos/videos/audio) from the Media Pool under Import... and ....If you could delete them in the Media Pool, they would have disappeared from your hard drive and then you would complain that the program "deleted my files". The same applies to folders......
Nowhere did I read in @browj2's answer that you have the mentioned deletion option via the Media Pool of MEP/MMS and VPX, or am I missing something?
Best wishes,
Rob
Hi Rob,
I was going to mention that we could delete files and folders from the Import tab in MMS/VPX but decided not to as @DannyP is using PhotoStory. In my basic editing tutorials, which I should update, I mention that whatever is in the Media Pool Import tab is live, on the hard drive, and to not delete files from there unless that is what is really the intention, and why.
It seems that too many users don't understand how it works. There was a post a few years ago of users complaining that the program deleted files and folders from their hard drive and they dumped all over Magix, bla bla bla. I told them that no, the program did not delete any files or folders, but that they did by deleting them from the Import tab and that they were warned, ignored the warning, deleted and then complained that it was the program that did this by itself.
As you say, you can go to the classic view in PhotoStory and delete files from the Media Pool. Very dangerous unless the user understands exactly what they are doing. In the case of the OP, he was not aware that the files in the Import tab are those on the hard drive and to not delete them unless that is really what he wanted to do. He thought that they were in the project.
I occasionally delete files in VPX from the Import tab, but I am very nervous each time, checking twice that I have selected the correct file to delete.
John CB
Hallo Danny,
Addition
The examples I gave apply to MEP 2025. To delete photos or movie files from the media pool via Photostory, do the following. Select the files you want to delete. Right-click on one of the files and then choose Delete (Ctrl+Del)
HTH
Rob
Hi Rob,
There are no options to rt click and delete but thanks for looking into it.
Danny
Hi
Looking at the image you posted above, what is the F: drive, a second internal, or external USB drive, the Samsung camera connected by USB, or the memory card from the camera?
I agree with @browj2 comment here, regarding deleting files from the Media pool without understanding the consequences.
John EB
Hello John,
The F:\ drive is indeed one of my internal drives.
But this has nothing to do with the questioner's question @DannyP. His question is unambiguous to me. I cannot delete photos via the Media Pool.
Just to be clear, I do not dispute @browj2's answer, but I prefer to give direct answers to questions from users. It is then up to the questioner what they do with the given answers. In this case, the deletion option via the Media Pool. Of course, you should always point out the possible consequences of use to the questioner. Because I know from experience that a user can unknowingly run into this, such as by pressing the DEL key.
@DannyP see and let me know if you have any questions
Beste wishes,
Rob