Deleting photos from iphoto after transferring to ext hd

Have seen other questions close to mine but not exact same. Hope someone can help. I have backed up all my photo's onto an external drive (actually 2 drives - 1 for current back up 1 for prev backup for redundancy).
Now I try and to delete photo's in iphoto but they are not deleting.
Remember seeing iphoto library - also modified file. I know iphoto keeps a copy of all originals and the modified ones. How do I delete these?
I have almost 20,000 pics on imac- last 6 mths all in raw format as got new camera. Can now longer download new pics as hd full.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Do I delete the files from the iphoto directory?
Under no circumstances.
Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
I went to delete them in iphoto but they did not move to the Trash on the Dock.
They don’t go to the trash in the Dock. They go to the iPhoto trash.
Is that the iphoto trash it is talking about?
No, the iPhoto trash in entirely independent of the Finder’s trash in the Dock.
Regards
TD

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