Deleting in I Photo

Dear kind Expert / Terence / Old Frog (you very kindly greatly assisted me the other day) / etc., - I have a large library file from which I have copied only about 1/3rd of these images into various albums.
Is it possible to highlight and delete in one command all the library items which are not copied into albums in this library - 2/3rd of the original whole? I want to retain only the images which are already placed in albums - 1/3rd of the whole.
Initially I have thought to copy each individual album into a folder on the desktop and then import each into a new library file thus editing out all the unwanted library images from the initial file. This works but all the images loose their original import date and then adopt a entirely non sequential random layout.
I want to retain the original imported date information and sequential order within each album.
Any advice would be very appreciated. Many thanks. Dirkaid.

dirkaid
This is a curious operation - what are you trying to do?
To find any pics that are NOT in an Album:
File -> New Smart Album
Album -> Is Not -> Any
Then trash those.
Regards
TD

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