This post is another that’s very much just for my benefit and if it helps you out too, great!
I often shoot RAW+JPG in case the client asks me to send them something during the shoot – I can beam the JPG to my phone and give it a quick edit before Airdropping it to them, or I can send myself a bunch of JPGs and upload them to my Pic-Time gallery.
And then when I import in Lightroom Classic after the shoot it brings over both the raw and the JPG. I know I could use Photo Mechanic to get just the raw files but it’s an extra step I can’t be bothered with at the start when I want everything into LRC as soon as possible.
Later on I delete all the unused raw files, and all the JPGs that the camera created. But that usually means having to filter for JPG files in the Finder and it’s a faff to do it that way, and to check that I’m not deleting the final JPGs, etc.
I just found out I can either import the raw and JPG files as separate files in LRC and then immediately filter the JPGs and delete them like that. Or, I can leave the ‘treat as one file’ setting turned on (ie JPGs are like unseen sidecar files to the raw file) for simplicity during the edit, then once I’ve moved my edited raws to their own folder I can turn off that setting, then Synchronise the folder, then delete the imported JPGs simply by going to Previous Import.
There’s also a scripting solution I can run in Terminal on my Mac, that selects and deletes just the JPGs in the final ‘Selected Raws’ folder in each job in my archive folder, once the edit is complete. I’m working on getting this just right, then I’ll post it below in case it’s useful.
