Deleting Files from Within the File Browser

If a file is so vile that it doesn’t even deserve a rank, you may want to delete it altogether just to cut down on clutter (and save drive space). There are a number of different ways to delete files—all of them simple.

Deleting photos: If you burned a CD when you first in-serted your memory card (and I know you did, because now you know how important it is to keep your digital negatives safely stored), then you can safely delete any photo you don’t want. You can do this as easily as clicking on the offending thumbnail, then pressing Delete (PC: Backspace). You’ll get a warning dialog (shown here) telling you that if you continue this madness (by clicking Yes), Photoshop will actually move this file ...

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