Clear unplaced photos in iBook

Anyone know if there's a workaround to clear unplaced photos in iBook. Once I've placed the photos I want to use, I'd like to get rid of the ones I haven't used and repalce them with others. Otherwise the list gets too big.

, but I don't seem to be able to 'select all', although, thanks to your help,
You are right, that doesn't work for me any more als well. I remember, I used to be able to select more at once by holding down the shift key.
But if you can solve your problem be removing the photos individually, it is o.k.

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Solution to iPhoto spinning beach ball for Book projects with too many unplaced photos

A few days ago I discovered the solution to this problem for a client using iPhoto 9.5.1 in OS X Mavericks 10.9.4.
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TRIED ALL KNOWN SUGGESTIONS BUT NONE HELPED
My client had already tried repairing, rebuilding etc. the iPhoto Library, and I tried OS X's Disk Verify and Repair Permissions plus emptied the cache folder in system Library and in the hidden user Library folder (option-key "Go" menu, Library). None of this helped.
CLUE TO PROBLEM
I noticed several of her iPhoto Book projects each had thousands of "unplaced" photos. In each of those cases, each Book project only had 10-50 "placed" photos used to order the book but thousands of "unplaced" photos. In a Book project, clicking on the bottom-right corner's "Photo" icon-button caused an extremely long lasting spinning beach ball making iPhoto unusable for long periods.
I discovered the problem by clicking once on an existing Book project's name in the left column of iPhoto, then letting go of the mouse with its arrow cursor hovering over the selected Book project name. Within 1-7 seconds, a little pop-up appears listing the total number of photos (placed + unplaced) in that Book project. For many Book projects, the total number was just several more photos than the number of "placed" photos, e.g., a Book with 25 photos showed "(37)" in the pop-up info by the hovering stationary mouse, meaning 37 total photos (placed + unplaced) are associated with that Book project.
BUT...
...some projects listed over 5,000 (five thousand) photos associated with a single Book project that had only placed 20-40 photos in the final printed book. One Book project had 6,070 and several other small book projects showed over 1,000 photos. In each Book project with a mass of unplaced photos, clicking the bottom-right "Photo" icon-button caused a very long-lasting spinning beach ball, almost certainly because iPhoto struggled to build a huge list of thumbnails for the mass of unplaced photos.
My client didn't understand how to efficiently add photos to a new Book project and was clicking on the pull-down menu in the right column that appears after clicking the Photo icon-button within the Book project. From the menu she chose "Last import..." or other menu choice that added a mass of "unplaced" photos to the Book project.
She didn't realize that after creating a new Book project, she could simply drag an individual photo or multi-selected group of photos or an event or "faces" group from its respective library section and drop it onto the Book project's name in the left column, thereby adding only a small group of "unplaced" photos.
USER SOLUTIONS
=====Delete mass of "unplaced photos" within a Book project
This works best for cleaning up smaller number of unplaced photos from completed Book projects.
Problems with solution:
- if the number of unplaced photos is huge, e.g., 6,070, the list of unplaced photos won't appear for a long, long time if ever.
- even if the list of unplaced photos finally appears, there's no way to select more than one thumbnail at a time, i.e., command-a for Select All doesn't work, nor do shift-clicks and command-clicks for multi-item selecting. You must click one photo then tap the "delete" key on your keyboard repeatedly and fast for this to be practical (note: delete key presses are cached here (meaning accumulated until it catches up processing them later); tapping the delete key like mad then waiting for iPhoto to catch up takes lots of patience.
====Delete an entire existing Book project containing a mass association of unplaced photos
This is practical if you've already printed your Book project and no longer need it. My client chose this method for Book projects with a mega mass of unplaced photos.
Problem with solution:
- for incomplete Book projects in progress with a mass of unplaced photos, you'd have to start over after deleting the whole thing.
NEED FOR IMPROVED IPHOTO FEATURE(S)
(1) The existing "Clear Placed Photos" button within a Book project might be useful, but it'd be even better to also have a button to "Clear Unplaced Photos,” and this button should be available outside of the section that struggles to display thumbnails of large numbers of unplaced photos. Clicking "Clear Unplaced Photos" would do the trick.
(2) An additional iPhoto behavior might help: iPhoto should warn with an option to cancel when adding a mass of photos to the "unplaced photo" section if the number of photos exceeds ??? (400??).
(3) Add another choice to iPhoto’s special startup Administrative window (Repair, Rebuild, etc.): "Remove unplaced photos from existing projects. (Doesn't destroy any photos in Library)"
Whew!

Like I mentioned in the post, corruption was probably ruled out by running all the Admin features at iPhoto startup (e.g., Rebuild, etc.). I also stated in my post that I also ran a Disk Verify and Repaired Permissions in OSX (via Disk Utility). I also emptied system Library cache files as I stated in my post.
I was paid to figure out the solution and am not getting paid to troubleshoot for Apple. The more unplaced photos there are in a Book project, the longer it takes to build thumbnails. It's an old general problem in computing when building lists on the fly.
The delay happened for all Book projects with lots of unplaced photos (almost*** certainly more than Apple imagined a user would use), and the beach ball delay was proportional to the number unplaced photos, which super large numbers of photos.
I very much doubt photos are corrupt. But Apple will probably figure it out. It was EASILY reproducible. Try it with different number of unplaced photos known not be corrupt (they display fine elsewhere and iPhoto's and Disk Utlity's admin Verify, Repair etc features show no problems).
I'm done with this.
My client's iPhoto works well now and she knows how avoid placing exorbitant numbers of unplaced photos into her project. I'm not getting paid to answer all this, so good night.
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***"Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends."
— A. C. Grayling

How can i place unplaced photos in a new book

I have been making photo books, but find I'm left with unplaced photos I don't want to put in the same book.
How can I select the remaining photos and place them in another book?
I know I can add extra pages, but is there then a way to split the book?
In any case I think my books can only have 100 pages, in which case I can't add extra pages to the existing book.
Any help greatly appreciated!

You might try it this way:
Select your Book in the "Projects" section of the Library.
Ctrl-click the icon and select "Duplicate" from the Pop-up menu. This will create a second copy of your book. Open this new Book.
Click the "Photos " tab.
Then press "Clear Placed Photos". Now you'll have a new book with only your unplaced Photos.
Alternately you may set the selector on top to "Unplaced Photos" to be able to select them and create a new book from the unplaces photos.
Regards
Léonie

Photo books - unplaced photos

Hi. I just created a photo book with 100 pages, but I have still have several hundred unplaced photos in my book. I want to create another book using only the unplaced photos from the first book. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks.

You might try it this way:
Select your Book in the "Projects" section of the Library.
Ctrl-click the icon and select "Duplicate" from the Pop-up menu. This will create a second copy of your book. Open this new Book.
Click the "Photos " tab.
Then press "Clear Placed Photos". Now you'll have a new book with only your unplaced Photos.
Alternately you may set the selector on top to "Unplaced Photos" to be able to select them and create a new book from the unplaces photos.
Regards
Léonie

IPhoto 11 won't let me buy book due to unplaced photos, but they are there!

I have created many photo books in both iPhoto and Aperture and this has not happened before. I click on the Buy Book button and it says I have unplaced photos and takes me to a page that clearly has all the photos placed. Any suggestions? Thanks!

You are missing one or more photos - usually on a page requireing a full page photo that is behind places photos - every page must have either a photo or a colored background - if you have any grey backgrounds thoses are problems - in several years I've never seen that error be incorrect
LN

Want to see examples of creative photo-based iBooks made in iBooks Author

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vinnyvg:
You are man who makes assumptions based on what, I don't know.
Nowhere in anything I wrote is there anything to suggest "You seem to indicate you cannot create your own style by taking a basic iBA template and making changes to suit your preferred colour scheme and within the book set a layout which compliments your pictures and offer an interesting composition to prospective buyer."
Where do you come up with such things?
You also appear to read very selectively.
You say, "I suggest you first master iBooks Author and its functions before setting out on a project."
Yet, I had already written this:
"I have since completely built my first iBook..."
Complete, I might add, with its "own style" I made by "taking a basic iBA template and making changes to suit your preferred color scheme."
"IF you cannot find photo books on the iBooks store.... Go to a book shop or library and study the various layouts for your ideas."
I am not looking for layout ideas per se. I am looking to see what other creative people have done with the tools of iBooks Author, tools that are new to me, so that I might use those tools to better execute the ideas in my head. I cannot find this kind of information in a library or book shop.
Currently, in the iBooks store, there are a total of 86 "Made for iBooks" books in the Arts and Entertainment selections and I can find no Photography and certainly no photo essay book sections. Only a few of those 86 books are photography books and they tend to be celebrity based. There must be at least hundreds, probably thousands, of photo based iBooks somewhere on the iBooks store made by non-celebrity photographers. Among these, there must be some jewels. I have not found them. I had hoped that somewhere out there there would be someone such as yourself with more experience with iBooks Author and the iBooks store who could have pointed me toward them.
A knowledgable person with a desire to help could have done so in one sentence.

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I was just wondering if it's possible to clear your photo stream...that is all.

Do you want to delete the photos in your PhotoStream?
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How do I undo clear placed photos - I have 'lost' 40 pages of my photo book

I used the clear placed photo icon and lost 40 pages of work ..
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I have a complete back up on an external drive but I am not sure how to reinstate the iphoto data.
You need to restore the iPhoto library from your backup. By default yoour iPhoto Library will be in your "Pictures" folder and called "iPhoto Library.photolibrary" (in iPhoto '11). what is your iPhoto version and your MacOS X version?
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My iPhone is FULL, no memory left for photos. If I move all my photos off my iPhone, will the 'ALBUMS' and their content (pics) be blown away ? Also, what is the BEST way to clear/save photos off my iPhone ? PC, ITunes, some other app ?

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