Archive a photo

In the panel: Archiving hides a photo from clients but keeps the file. Restoring is instant, deleting archived photos is permanent.

Archived photos leave the client view and keep their files; the tab is the way back.

Archive is not delete

This is the single most important distinction in a gallery:

	Archive	Delete
Photo visible to client	No	No
File on disk	Kept	Removed
Can be undone	Yes, instantly	No
Counts against storage	Yes	No

Archive a photo when you want it out of the client’s view for now: a duplicate, a blink, a shot you may still want, a photo kept for the record. Nothing is uploaded again and nothing is lost.

Delete a photo only when you are sure. It removes the file and the row.

What the client notices

Nothing but the absence. Archived photos disappear from the shared gallery, from the ZIP download, from the portfolio grid, and their photo page returns a not found. Nobody gets an email saying a photo was archived.

Where archived photos live

The owner sees an Archived tab in the gallery, right after Photos, and only while at least one photo is archived. From there you can review, restore or delete.

The photographer viewer has an A shortcut that toggles the current photo. Pressing it on a live photo archives it and jumps on; pressing it in the Archived tab restores it.

Deleting everything archived

The Archived tab has a Delete all archived photos action. It is deliberately the only destructive action in the gallery that warns in capitals: it removes every archived photo and its files permanently. Use it to finish a cleanup, never as a quick way to empty the tab.

Common case

You delivered 400 photos, the client selected 60, and the rest are noise. Archiving the 340 leftovers hides them from the client without re-uploading anything, and you can restore any of them if the client asks for “that one with the tree”.