Deleting originals off camera

I know that there has been a similar thread recently (alas now closed or i would have posted this there), in which SkipHaughay suggested not deleting photos via iPhoto but ...
... I have usually, though not always, done the deletion via iPhoto but recently, although I click that option on Importing - it doesn't delete the photos. It always used to do so.
I am using iPhoto v5.0.4 (263) under OSX.4.10 and a Nikon Coolpix 5200 camera.
I shall take SkipHaughay's advice, but I am just curious as to why the auto deletion no longer works.
Thanks.

Some people have found the photos in the import (or importing) folder in the iPhoto library - go to your pictures folder and right click (control click) on the iPhoto library and choose show package contents from the menu that appears. Look (do not touch - if you change anything inside the iPhoto library you risk corrupting the library and losing more data) and see if there is a folder named import or importing - is there is drag it to the desktop and look inside - if your photos are there you can import them otherwise something like media recovery is your only chance
In the future it would be good to use a USB card reader to import your photos and after they are imported and checked then format your card in your camera. This eliminates problems like you had and insures that the card is correctly formatted.
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Some people have found the photos in the import (or importing) folder in the iPhoto library - go to your pictures folder and right click (control click) on the iPhoto library and choose show package contents from the menu that appears. Look (do not touch - if you change anything inside the iPhoto library you risk corrupting the library and losing more data) and see if there is a folder named import or importing - is there is drag it to the desktop and look inside - if your photos are there you can import them otherwise something like media recovery is your only chance
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When I import into iPhoto - once the import is completed, it asks if I want to delete the Originals (which I generally do!).
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Supposedly, but people here have reported that 2.0 doesn't delete originals off the card, even when you tell it to.
Frankly, my best advice is to not ever do this. Just manually format in the card when you use it. You'll have fewer issues this way (the camera is the only thing that TRULY knows what format it wants to use), and you have a backup if something should go wrong -- until you erase the card in the camera. If you ever have a situation where an import goes wrong and then the importing app does it anyway (I had this happen with iPhoto a few years back and lost some images), you'll NEVER have your importing app delete images automatically again.

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Wife had the same problem today. Remembering that I had recently signed her up for more space on iCloud and started backing up her photos, I decided to roll the dice and turn that off. Plug phone back into computer and *boom* I now have the option to delete. Now I just have to figure out how I can do both = \

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Yes - you need a min of 10 GB just to operate - with just 1 you certainly can lose photos and other critical things - you need to make space immediately - probably by moving your iPhoto library to a volume formatted Mac OS extended -
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
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Hamish, there are two important things you should know: 1) if you can recover your deleted photos using any software, then you can do the same thing with "delete after import" and 2) if you can recover after a format, you never did a format, which also brings up the fact that "reformatting" the card to preserve data integrity requires a "full reformat" where every sector of the disk is wiped and, by default, a "quick reformat" just rewrites the File Allocation Table to zeros, ALL the files are still on the card and can be recovered. It's the reason the military has special "secure format" options built into their devices, because even a full reformat leaves magnetic traces that can be recovered with the right software. A secure reformat actually write random data with characters numbered 0-127 to each sector, erases it, writes random data a second time with characters 128-255 and erases it, then finally writes specifically the value "0" to all sectors and then performs a full reformat which places the value "null" in each sector. Then you KNOW your data is gone, each sector has data integrity and can be safely written to again and no one can snatch your data once you've formatted the card.
Apart from the aforementioned arguments, not everyone removes the card to transfer data. Some people use a USB cable and some are now using wireless and I believe their is an IR transfer on some cameras. On cameras using MTP and PTP, some erase/format commands are not available directly over the connection.
However, my biggest concern is twofold, it presumes that Adobe knows better then I what should/could be done with my data and they are helping me "for my own good" (them's fighting words between liberals and conservatives, democrats and republicans) and secondly, it restricts options instead of expanding them. Who knows what possibilities exist or needs may or may not be fulfilled by some creative minds out there (I am constantly amazed at what people can do when given the tools they need) and having options is always a good thing. As was pointed out, if implemented correctly, no harm can come to your data because there is always two copies in existence until verification is made that the copy is a perfect match to the original. On the other hand, I have had cameras corrupt the original, so nothing is ever perfectly safe. However, the "observed" actual practice is that people use Lightroom, transfer the photos, then format the card manually creating the exact same problem as if the camera did it automatically (far easier to reformat while the card is in the computer than put it in the camera and go through all those menus) and thus they would lose the information anyhow. The people who are least likely to lose any data are those who transfer the pictures, then look at every one to assure you have it, then go back and delete them one at a time from your camera and, when empty, then reformat the card. Try doing that during a wedding shoot. Very few people are so disciplined. It is a feature that has outlived it's day. You are hard pressed to find any software besides Lightroom that does not give this option.
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