

Photoshop on desktop Transform your photos for social posts, banners, beautiful websites, and more. Lightroom Classic Edit and store your images on desktop.

However there are things that are specific to Lightroom Classic like Collections, Publish service, syncing to Creative Cloud etc that will be lost. Lightroom Edit photos on any device with cloud storage, and enjoy easy-to-use sliders, presets, and in-app tutorials. If you then reimport of sycronize the folder you will recover the metadata and previous edits. In this situation if you click on delete key and select the first option in the pop-up the data in the Catalog will be removed but the data written to the file will remain. xmp sidecars for raw files and to the file headers for tiff, jpeg, and other rendered images. These options will save your work with the image files via. However there is an option in Lr Catalog Settings to "Automatically write Metadata to xmp" or there is a manual menu function Metadata > Save Metadata to file.

If you reimport or synchronize the folder you will not recover your metadata and other work done in Lr. If you use the the first option the images will be removed from the Catalog and all your work done will be deleted and the images will remain in the disk where they reside. If you select an image or several images then click the delete key there will be a pop-up with two options, Remove from Lr Catalog or Delete from disk. By default while you are working in LrC all the work you do is recorded and saved in the Lightroom Catalog file and other support data files. You have already received valuable info from several users.
