Delete greyed out

[FOTOLINCS]

I need to delete some images but delete is greyed out. Any ideas?

[Harry Harrison]

Just to be clear, you're in Image Manager and looking at the 'Delete' option at the bottom of the 'Optional' tab? Have you selected your image?

[Joseph Clemson]

Posted in error

Edited April 30, 2021 by Joseph Clemson

[FOTOLINCS]

1 hour ago, Harry Harrison said:

Just to be clear, you're in Image Manager and looking at the 'Delete' option at the bottom of the 'Optional' tab? Have you selected your image?

Yes and yes.

[FOTOLINCS]

I am in Image manager and have selected an image but delete is greyed out.

[Stokie]

27 minutes ago, FOTOLINCS said:

I am in Image manager and have selected an image but delete is greyed out.

I would close image manager (maybe even the Alamy site) and start again. Maybe just a gremlin in the works.

 

John.

[FOTOLINCS]

I'm afraid it's been like this for months, maybe even two or three years but it was never too important but now I do need to delete some images.

[Stokie]

In that case, contact contributor relations.

contributors@alamy.com

 

John.

[Harry Harrison]

I think that's one for contributors@alamy.com in that case, it seems inexplicable.

[FOTOLINCS]

For those who struggled with this as I did, here's Alamy's reply and it works.  You can delete images in Alamy Image Manager by selecting the ones you want to delete, going to the ‘optional’ tab and scrolling down to the bottom. Here you will see the option to delete.

[NYCat]

8 hours ago, FOTOLINCS said:

I am in Image manager and have selected an image but delete is greyed out.

 

It sounds like you were doing exactly what Alamy says. I am confused.

 

Paulette

[Allan Bell]

Maybe Alamy repaired FOTOLINCS dashboard before they told him what to do?

 

Allan

 

(Another Lincolnshire Photologist.)

 

ITMA

 

[FOTOLINCS]

Here ya go NYCat.  Go into Alamy Image Manager, select pic's you want to delete, (delete selected will still be greyed out (that was my problem too) but now flip over to OPTIONAL menu where you add your date/location etc and if you click the delete icon bottom right, all your selected pics will vanish. 

[Steve F]

52 minutes ago, FOTOLINCS said:

Here ya go NYCat.  Go into Alamy Image Manager, select pic's you want to delete, (delete selected will still be greyed out (that was my problem too) but now flip over to OPTIONAL menu where you add your date/location etc and if you click the delete icon bottom right, all your selected pics will vanish. 

 

But Colin, there is only a possibility to delete pictures once you've selected an image and gone to the Optional menu. You won't see a delete button otherwise, greyed out or not.

 

Or were you getting confused about the 'delete selected' button under the Tags (keywords) section?? That's for ...ahem deleting keywords. Sorry, shouldn't laugh, but it's Fri night 🙃

Edited April 30, 2021 by Steve F

[FOTOLINCS]

23 minutes ago, Steve F said:

 

But Colin, there is only a possibility to delete pictures once you've selected an image and gone to the Optional menu. You won't see a delete button otherwise, greyed out or not.

 

Or were you getting confused about the 'delete selected' button under the Tags (keywords) section?? That's for ...ahem deleting keywords. Sorry, shouldn't laugh, but it's Fri night 🙃

??? You are right of course Steve, I should have given it its correct name "Delete Selected" but I thought this meant select the images to delete and then, not unreasonably, click "delete Selected" as it says on the tin so to speak ...ahem!   

Alamy cleared it up and so it's ..,Go into Alamy Image Manager, select pic's you want to delete, (delete selected will still be greyed out but now flip over to OPTIONAL menu where you add your date/location etc and if you click the delete icon bottom right, all your selected pics will vanish.   HOWEVER... what would you think a button did that was named "Delete Selected"? 😏

[Steve F]

2 minutes ago, FOTOLINCS said:

??? You are right of course Steve, I should have given it its correct name "Delete Selected" but I thought this meant select the images to delete and then, not unreasonably, click "delete Selected" as it says on the tin so to speak ...ahem!   

Alamy cleared it up and so it's ..,Go into Alamy Image Manager, select pic's you want to delete, (delete selected will still be greyed out but now flip over to OPTIONAL menu where you add your date/location etc and if you click the delete icon bottom right, all your selected pics will vanish.   HOWEVER... what would you think a button did that was named "Delete Selected"? 😏

 

Glad it's sorted! I am of course biased because I've been using the system for years and I can't remember how I found it initially. But we've all been there at some point... 😄

[NYCat]

2 hours ago, FOTOLINCS said:

Here ya go NYCat.  Go into Alamy Image Manager, select pic's you want to delete, (delete selected will still be greyed out (that was my problem too) but now flip over to OPTIONAL menu where you add your date/location etc and if you click the delete icon bottom right, all your selected pics will vanish. 

 

Aha! I've always had problems with our current Image Manager and when they gave us those little extra buttons for the tags I just ignored them. I guess I always assume I will have problems with it. It doesn't like me and I don't like it. Each new Image Manager we have been given is worse than the one we had. That is MY opinion.

 

Paulette