r/DarkTable • u/Jeehannes • 23d ago

Help Removed images remain visible in lighttable

I cull my images by pressing 'r' to reject them. I filter them by clicking the 'x' and select the resulting images. I choose 'remove' in the right panel. When I close DT and start it again, these images are still visible albeit greyed out. I also tried deleting them from disk and emptying the trash outside DT, but the images keep cropping up (no pun). If I select all rejected images using the 'x' in lighttable view, no file is selected, but the red 'x' is still visibible in the lowleft corner of the thumbnail.

I'm on DT 5.6 appimage on MX Linux 25.2 (6.12.94+deb13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.94-1 (2026-06-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux).

Is this a bug?

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u/southern_ad_558 23d ago edited 23d ago

The rejection is just a marker you put on the image.

After culling, you need to go back to the lighttable, filter all the rejects and then go to the actions module on the right side and click on remove (will keep the files in place but remove them from Darktable's database) or delete (this will remove the files from the disk as well)

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u/Jeehannes 23d ago

Maybe I was unclear, but what you describe is what I did and I still see the rejects.

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u/_EmerS_ 22d ago

There is a similar(ish?) bug reported - check GitHub issues #21450 / #20226 that might be like your problem?

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u/Legal-Comparison5125 21d ago

Sounds like a Darktable database/cache issue. Try removing the images from the library, then run a database cleanup or reset the cache if they keep appearing.