I want to delete more than 1 photo at once but not all of them on my Canon PowerShot sx160 &120

[oceans88]

Hey everyone. I've always wondered is there a way to delete more than one photo at a time, but not all of them, from my Canon Powershot sx160 and my Canon Powershot sx120? I don't want to clear the whole chip I know how to do that. But I have a lot of photos to delete and my finger and my thumb are sore LOL. And don't know if there's a way to delete a group of photos but not everything that's on the camera instead of doing it one at a time? Thank you for the help I appreciate it 🙂

[oceans88]

Hi yes I've already downloaded the manual for the sx160 a few weeks ago and I've already read the pages that you were looking at too I still don't see any one easy specific way to delete a whole bunch of photos at once. If there is a way I am not reading it correctly then cuz I just don't see it. The other gentleman here who replied suggested I just go through the photos that I want to protect and erase all the rest. That sounds like an easier method. I think that is possible to do on both these cameras the sx160 and the sx120. But I still haven't figured out if there's an easy way to do the protect thing? I do see the protect setting in the menu. But after that I'm not sure how you do it even though I've read that page a few times it's still not very clear to me. When I click protect it just says in the top left screen protect but then if I change to another photo I don't think it's saving the protect setting even when I hit the function button so I don't know if I have to go through each photo to do something special to protect it? But it does seem the easier way to go cuz I have way less photos I want to protect then the amount that I want to erase 🙂 and like I said mostly all of these photos are in my laptops and some of them are even on a flash drive and in the Google Drive cloud.:-) I just would like to erase a big chunk of them on the camera now but still save a few

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

Great help provided.  I recommend that you not use your camera or its memory card as a storage repository.  

Download your images from your camera to PC or MAC.  Format your memory card in camera so its ready for your next adventure.  This way its always ready to go.

Its much easier to navigate a photo library on your computer.  Saving what you want and deleting what you don't.  Trying to do this from the screen on the back of your camera is cumbersome.  You also won't wear your thumb and finger out.  😂

You can use CTRL+Click, Shift+Click (PC) or Command+Click, Shift+Click (Mac) to select individual or a range of images, then press delete.  No cumbersome navigation, no protecting or wondering what you did or didn't mark previously, looking at a lock symbol or performing extra steps.

Important data should be backed up twice, two locations.  Your camera should not be one of them.  A memory card  should not be trusted as a backup medium for long term storage.  This will simplify your life and ensure important memories are protected.  🙂