Is there a way to omit the prompt for deletion in Lightroom?

Question

I'm here at the Imagine Cup World Finals again taking pictures, and I'm using Adobe Lightroom, and I took a large number of pictures today which are garbage. I'd like a quick way of going through those images and throwing out the absolute garbage (blurry, underexposed, overexposed, etc). However, every time I hit the delete key, Lightroom keeps complaining "Do you want to delete these or merely remove them from the catalog?" -- I want to just nuke them from the collection but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to tell it to always pick one option or another.

Is that possible?

Answer

I don't believe you can disable it, but a really easy workflow in regards to this is:

• The photos you would delete, mark as 'Rejected' with the 'X' shortcut key.

• After you're all done, go to the grid view in Library, click the 'Rejected' flag to filter by rejected and delete them all in one go.

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