Deleting photos in Aperture -

Ok. I have just switched from iPhoto to Aperture. I cannot figure out how to simply delete a photo that I don't want. It is a sucky photo, and I will never edit it, etc... - it just needs to go away. Forever. In iPhoto, as I scrolled through my imported pictures, I could hit the delete key as I went along, and the photos would in fact be deleted (or put into the trash folder which I would later empty). In Aperture, as I scroll through my imported photos, I can't figure out how to delete the sucky ones without lots of keystrokes. Advice???
And what are Libraries vs. Projects? I used to organize my photos in iPhoto by using the folders on the left side of the page.

How do you delete ONLY a version and not a Master? I was just in Aperture and went to a project and there was a Master [original version sort of] there and then Version 2 of the same image, worked a bit on and then a 3rd version with more tweaking. So far so good.
I go to the File menu and go down and there are two choices: Delete Version and Delete Master and all Versions. I know or think that the latter means that if I delete the Master then I'll delete it and every other representation of it...so that Delete Version should allow me to only delete version 3 of the 3 photos version 1=Master, Version 2 and the bad Version 3]...but when I deleted Version 3 it ended up deleting all three of the images not just the selected version.
Why is that? I want to be able to delete one image not all images of one thing= and the fact there are two types of Delete images available in the File menu indicates one is to nuke them all and the other should be to nuke only one but each time it nukes them all.
I did have a backup plus I have Time Machine but it's really irritating not to understand this.

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Make sure you've selected a photo, a yellow highligh border around the photo, in the album before you use the Delete key. If you just hit the album icon to bring up the photos and use the Delete key without a photo definitely selected you will delete the album. But in that case you should get this wanring window at the top of the iPhoto window:
So if you're sure that you have selected a photo then the library is misbehaving and the following might help: make a temporary, backup copy (if you don't already have a backup copy) of the library and try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home()/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.
3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
OT

When importing from camera into aperture, photo's are also copied to my desktop, if i delete from desktop i am unable to edit photo in aperture. Must have done something, but what?

When importing from camera into aperture, photo's are also copied to my desktop, if i delete from desktop i am unable to edit photo in aperture. Must have done something, but what?

Have a look at your import setting specifically Store Files:
Make sure it is set to where you want the originals to go.
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano - Don;t empty the system trash. The originals that you deleted from the Desktop are in there and are the only copies you have unless they are still in the camera.

Aperture deleting photos while I sleep...

Someone else had this issue, but their thread was closed so I can't reply to it:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2639241?start=0&tstart=0
I just started using Aperture 2 days ago. I linked it to Facebook, and uploaded photos from my Dad's birthday. I wasn't impressed that there was no obvious way to choose whether you want a standard or high-rez upload, but as it turns out it seems it defaults to high-rez. That's fine I guess–I'm long used to Facebook's cruel compression algorithims destroying my work. That's not Aperture's fault.
What IS Aperture's fault is its propensity for deleting photos from my albums on a whim. About 2 hours after I'd finished the upload, I got a Facebook message: "why did you take the photos down?". Huh? I checked, and sure enough they were all gone. That was particularly upsetting because all the nice comments were gone too. Grrrrr. Take them down?–I'd done no such thing. I reposted them manually, then started uploading shots I'd taken of my friend's new baby. I did this from Aperture again. When I went to bed last night the photos were all there.
This morning I checked Facebook and I see a post asking why the baby photos were all gone. All but one–the one I'd originally uploaded manually before adding others to that album via Aperture. This really irks me because their baby was about a day old when I uploaded the photos, and tons of family members had left great comments on the photos. All are now gone.
Suffice it to say I'm less than pleased. I've removed the Facebook syncing from Aperture, and will do it manually from now on. I'm clearly not the only one who's had this problem, so it seems something needs to be addressed in the UI. Otherwise my transition from iPhoto to Aperture has been reasonably smooth. I'm still evaluating whether or not the upgrade was worth it, but if only because I can disable 'Faces', I'm willing to keep learning about Aperture.
Thanks Apple. Love ya, just need you to tidy this app up a little.
Cheers,
Jason

Same thing happened to me while updating my Library, except it deleted about 4 years worth of photos, a few thousand images, comments, and tags -- even photos it never had anything to do with. Basically my entire Facebook upload history. Gone. Didn't even warn me.
That's it, we're through Apple. I have finally had it with your ****.

Aperture library gets bigger when i delete photos?

I finally took some time to "spring clean" my aperture library, but after deleting a bunch of photos, my aperture-library grew from 136GB to 152 GB.
I don't get it.
Procedure:
Send photos from projects to aperture-trash
empty aperture trash
empty finder trash
badaboom +16BG
If i keep cleaning my HDD will be full in no time

The solution is to restore your iphone.
This is posted here every day.

Will deleting all photos from aperture 3 also delete them from iphoto

if i delete all photos from aperture 3, will it also delete from my iphoto-
i had the problem because i connected ext. drive to my macpro and thousands of photos downloaded, which i want to delete, but not interfer with my iphoto
photos albums etc.
thanks for your help

Whitout telling us your version of Aperture, iPhoto and the OS and describe what you mean by
i connected ext. drive to my macpro and thousands of photos downloaded,
there is little we can do to help,

Aperture keeps restoring deleted photos

Hi there pros,
I need some help, partly because my problem is nongooglable as it seems..
My Aperture keeps restoring photos that I've already deleted! It happens when I have to restore the database. But since I had the problem before I made sure that NOTHING had a below-zero-star-rating (I don't know the english word, sorry), NOTHING was in the Aperture trash, and NOTHING was in the MacOS X Trash.
So where does Aperture get those photos from?!? I don't know what I find more annoying: that I have to sight them all again and decide from the beginning which photo I want to keep, or that those pictures might somewhere occupy disc space.
now, when I google something like the topicname, I only get results about people wanting to restore their accidentally deleted photos. Apparently that is the more common question. Nevertheless, mine is really annoying too!!
Has anybody come across this problem? ANY idea what could help? Because I have no idea, with what I could even start trying..
thanks in advance!
Mario
PS: by the way, aperture is on the latest version, mavericks too.

So where does Aperture get those photos from?!? I don't know what I find more annoying: that I have to sight them all again and decide from the beginning which photo I want to keep, or that those pictures might somewhere occupy disc space.
The "recovered items" you find after the Aperture library or iPhoto library has been repaid or rebuild, is a collection of orphaned images, that have been found in the photo library and are not linked to any image version. These orphans can be created by several problems:
If you use an external editor and accidentally use "Save as" instead of "Save". Then you will write files into the library, that Aperture cannot access.
When the connection between the image version and the original file gets broken; this can happen for several reasons, for example, when you access the files inside the library from other applications or another user account, or the library is stored on an incorrectly formatted disk, or your disk has bad blocks, or similar.
Permission problems with your Aperture trash or system trash. Sometimes it can happen, that original files that should be trashed, cannot be removed from the library. If you open your library in iPhoto, you may be caught by the bug, that the originals will not be deleted, if you merged its event with a different event before emptying the Trash.
Could any of these reasons apply in your case? Check carefully, if the originals in the Recovered Items are really redundant, if they are apparently duplicates of photos you want to keep. I'd export them to keep a backup before deleting them.
It happens when I have to restore the database.
Do you mean, when you restore the database from a backup, or is this a typo and you meant "repair or rebuild"?

Delete photos from iPod Touch 4G

I can no longer sync my iPod Touch 4G (iOS 6) with iTunes (insufficient space). When I bought my MacBook Pro last year, they set it up to sync my photos (I literally have over 12,000 photos) which all got transferred to my iPod. I want to delete them but can't seem to find any delete options or how to stop iPhoto from automatically transferring all of my photos after uploading. I now have iTunes 11 and it doesn't even show photos in the sidebar anymore so I can't seem to delete them that way. Anyone know how I can remove these photos from my iPod and/or stop iPhoto from always syncing them to the iPod??

To delete photos and videos from your device
To delete synced photos and videos
In iTunes, select the device icon in the Devices list on the left. Click the Photos tab in the resulting window.
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On a Windows PC, choose Photoshop Album or Photoshop Elements from the pop-up menu.
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Click Apply.
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How do I delete photos from iPod Touch? Some photos do not have the trash basket option!

How do I delete photos from iPod Touch? Some photos do not have the trash basket option!
When I first synced my iPod Touch with my laptop, it uploaded a lot of photos onto the iPod. I now wish to delete those but it does not seem as a straight forward option!

For photos synced to the iPod you have to unsync them:
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On a Windows PC, choose Photoshop Album or Photoshop Elements from the pop-up menu.
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I believe that iTunes/Aperture keeps a cache for the photos shared with AppleTV. Those need to be updated. If you can figure out where the cache is and delete it, iTunes/Aperture should regenerate it in the correct orientation. Unfortunately I don't have the time now to figure out where it is.

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About a year ago I imported my iPhoto library of about 23,000 photos to Aperture 3. The iPhoto library had some small corruptions in it and I was hoping the more robust nature of Aperture 3 would fix these, but the import made the corruption issues significantly worse. Old Events from iPhoto (now Projects in Aperture 3) were randomly split up all over the place, duplicates of many photos appeared and many photos seemed to have lost the EXIF(?) data indicating which way photos were taken (landscape or portrait mode). As a result of the last problem many photos were on their side or upside down. Applecare were no use at all, claimed they had never heard of such a problem and had no idea how to solve these issues.
After laboriously fixing most of the problems by hand over the past year, all the photos in my Aperture 3 library (now around 25,000 photos), display the correct way up.
However, I still have one problem I can't fix. When Apple TV picks the photos up from Aperture (on my iMac), via my WiFi network, it displays around 20% of them on their sides rather than the correct way up. Rebooting everything multiple times hasn't fixed it. My guess is the Apple TV is reading the corrupted EXIF data associated with these photos, and ignoring their orientation as they appear (after manual correction), in Aperture.
Does anyone have a fix or any ideas please?

I believe that iTunes/Aperture keeps a cache for the photos shared with AppleTV. Those need to be updated. If you can figure out where the cache is and delete it, iTunes/Aperture should regenerate it in the correct orientation. Unfortunately I don't have the time now to figure out where it is.

How do I delete photos and photo albums from my iPhone? The instructions given do not work. No "delete" symbol appears next to the album name, and no trash can icon appears below most of the pictures the computer just put on my new iPhone 4.

How do I delete photos and photo albums from my iPhone 4? The instructions given do not work. No "delete" symbol appears next to the album name when I press "Edit," and no trash can icon for me to click appears below most of the individual photos in the albums the computer just loaded on my new iPhone 4. When I synced the new phone the computer added these photo albums without permission from me. They are now taking up about 3 GB of memory on my phone. I would like very much to get rid of these photos from the phone. How do I do this?

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Ipad won't sync with photos from Aperture - library cannot be found

Ok I give up. When trying to sync my photos onto my new ipad from Aperture in iTunes I keep getting the message "iTunes cannot sync photos to the ipad because your Aperture Library could not be found. Open the preferences window in Aperture and enable the preference to share previews with other applications. Well the library is where it should be in the Home folder and then pictures. I have the latest version of iTunes and Aperture. The only similar setting I can find in Aperture preferences is under Previews and Share Previews with ilife and iwork, no mention of itunes?
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Why does a face show up on my iPad when I have deleted it from aperture

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Homesharing has issues that have not been fixed over several versions of itunes and ios.
Only kind of fix is go back through your library and retag it.

How to deleted photos in Photo stream?

Can anyone help me to delete photos in Photo Stream!!
Parshwanath

From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486 :
How do I delete photos from my Photo Stream in iCloud?
Individual photos cannot be deleted from your Photo Stream. You can, however, delete all the photos in your Photo Stream by clicking the Reset Photo Stream button in your account at icloud.com. The Reset Photo Stream button will instantly delete all Photo Stream photos stored in iCloud, but it will not remove any Photo Stream photos that have already been pushed to your devices.
How do I delete photos from my Photo Stream on my devices?
After deleting the photos from your Photo Stream in iCloud, you can remove the Photo Stream photos from your devices as follows:
On your iOS devices, go to Settings > iCloud > Photo Stream and turn Photo Stream off. This will delete all the photos from your Photo Stream album. If there are any photos you want to keep on your device, make sure to add them to an album or save them to your Camera Roll first.
On your Mac, go to iPhoto or Aperture preferences and turn off Photo Stream. This will delete all the photos from the Photo Stream view. If you had Automatic Import enabled in Photo Stream settings, your photos were also imported to your iPhoto or Aperture Library and will remain after you disable Photo Stream. If you want to delete any of these photos from your Library, you can do so manually any time you like.
On your PC, you can remove Photo Stream photos by deleting them from your designated Photo Stream download folder. By default, this folder is located at C:\Users\Apple\Pictures\Photo Stream\My Photo Stream.

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