Move to Trash and Undo

Remove the bad frame where you found it, and take back any action you didn't mean.

Move photos to the Trash

When filtering and sorting have turned up a photo you don’t want, remove it right there:

• with photos selected, click Move to Trash… at the right end of the bar at the bottom, or press ⌘ ⌫;
• or right-click a photo and choose Move to Trash…. On a selected photo this moves the whole selection, as in Finder.

ExifXplorer asks first, naming the photos. It warns if any have unsaved edits (which go with them) or are in a synced cloud folder such as Dropbox or iCloud Drive (where they also disappear from your other devices). Cancel is selected, so pressing Return by habit does nothing.

Photos go to the macOS Trash, never deleted outright. Each one takes its XMP sidecar and ExifTool backup (.RAF_original and the like) along, unless another photo still uses the same sidecar, as a RAW and JPEG pair can.

On a drive with no Trash, such as many network drives, the photo can’t be moved. ExifXplorer says so and leaves it where it is; it never deletes instead.

Undo

Most actions can be taken back right after: moving to the Trash, renaming, batch edits, copying values between photos, geotagging, shifting timestamps and adding keywords.

• Click Undo on the message at the bottom of the window. Hovering over the message keeps it from disappearing.
• Or choose Edit ▸ Undo, or press ⌘ Z, for up to a minute afterwards. In a text field, ⌘ Z undoes your typing instead.

Undoing a Move to Trash brings the files back to where they were and restores each photo in the library exactly as it was, keywords and unsaved edits included. It never overwrites a file that has since appeared in the same place.

After that minute, trashed photos are still in the Trash: drag them back from there and choose Rescan this folder on their folder.