Deleting photos in mass

How do I delete photos IN MASS from my device? I have 400 photos and need to clear them off but have only found a way to delete them one by one on the device. From what I can tell, there is no way to delete using the desktop software as well - only to sync.

Mark, if you have a bunch of folders you want to remove from LR's Folder list (but not delete them - and I assume the folders are not empty), assuming this is an infrequent operation - you could go external to LR and COPY the folders to a temp location using your file browser, then delete the original folders. Next go into LR and click on one of the folders; that should remove it and all the others from LR's Folder list. Finally, go back to the external file browser and move the folders back to where you want them.
Like I said, you don't want to do this too frequently, it's a pain. BTW, this is on a Mac, so the Windows version may behave differently. In the end, unless you have MANY folders to remove from LR's list, it's probably just as fast to click each folder and choosing delete (this removes from LR, but does not delete), one folder after another.
(I did try MOVING the folders using a file browser to another drive, but in LR, it followed them to the new location. That's why I suggest COPYING the folders then deleting the originals.)
- Pierre

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i have iOS 7, iPhone 4s and Mavericks.
i know i can tap and hold on the photo and the "more" option appears, then flip through the conversation and select individual messages to delete within that conversaion. but i have so many ongoing texts that i dont want to delete, and most have many photos within the message that go months back that i dont need. i dont want to delete the entire conversation but i dont need the photos embedded in the message. im tired of deleting photos from the message as soon as i read or sent a photo text. is there an option in the phone or an app that will mass delete embedded photos within all texts. either iphone or mac app would work... or a script... anything! i would even be happy with selecting all phones to delete across all messages the way the camera roll allows you to delete. its seems like an obvious option.
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Open the Settings app > Notifications > Messages. Scroll down adn turn OFF "View In Lock Screen". You may want to consider setting Alert style to none, but this will not impact what happens when the screen is locked.

Please can someone help me with saving/deleting photos?

Hi, I know I am not using my iPhone correctly, but I am a busy mother and have been stacking up the photos on Camera Roll. I now need to delete some, but want to keep some to show friends. I don't have time to trawl the forums looking for the answer so am really hoping someone will take pity on me and answer these simple questions, bearing in mind that I can't get to a computer to sync that often, so i am going to have lots of photos.
1) How do you transfer photos from Camera Roll to an album using the phone?
2) When I sync and photos are downloaded from my camera roll I get a pop up asking if I want to keep or delete the photos on my phone. If I choose Delete, will it delete just the photos in Camera Roll, or in the albums too?
3) I have chosen Keep in the past and now have masses of photos on my camera roll. Short of using the curved arrow in the top right and selecting each photo individually, is there a way to delete multiple photos all at once on the phone (not on computer)?
4) Why oh why haven't Apple got a 'protect' button for individual photos so that you can keep a few photos in camera roll and delete the rest, like on a digital camera (yes I KNOW this isn't what Camera Roll is for...) It just makes so much sense.
Thanks.

There isn't any "delete all" button for deleting photos on your phone. The fastest way to delete photos is with your computer, but on the phone you will have to open the Camera Roll in thumbnail view, tap the arrow button on upper right, tap all the photos you want to delete, tap the Delete button.
When you delete photos from the Camera Roll they are also deleted from any albums they may be in. Albums are like music playlists, they only contain pointers to the photos in Camera Roll to allow you to look at a filtered view of selected photos. Just as deleting songs from your library will also remove them from any playlist, so too removing photos from Camera Roll removes them from any album.
As for why Apple doesn't have a "protect" button, you could offer that suggestion to Apple here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.

TS3899 I have just up dated my iphone 5s to iOS7 - i now have 8310 emails in my inboxes - how do i delet them on mass & how do i restrict the number of recent emails in my inboxes?

Can anyone help? - uodated to iOS7 and now have 8310 emails - how do i delete them on mass & how do i restrict emails in my inboxes to the most recent 250?

Hey iphoneboy16
Create a Shared Photo Stream to get any missed photos that did not make it into the Photo Stream. Remember, when you turned on Photo Stream it will start to copy new photos taken at that point in time. It also only holds the pictures for 30 days and up to 1000 photos.
iCloud: My Photo Stream FAQ
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Photo Sharing and Shared Photo Streams
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4379
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
-Norm G.

Deleted photo's thumbnails appear in N97's capture...

Hi guys.
As the title said, deleted photo's thumbnails appear in my N97's capture gallery. I capture an image or two and when I go to my Photos > Captured I see tumbnails of images I deleted a long time ago. When I open a file I still see an image that was deleted ower a year ago.
Only when I click "edit" do I see the recently captured image that I should have seen in the first place.
I tried everything. Restore factory settings, delete everything the phone lets me in explorer... still the problem persists. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Hi dtbsz,
We're sorry to hear you have been having trouble with this, but here are a few ways to thoroughly get to the bottom of your issue. I'm assuming you're using the defult photo app.
Firstly, connect your N97 using Mass Storage mode. If you have Windows, open up the drive associated with the N97 under My Computer. Before going anywhere, make sure you have your Windows Explorer set to show hidden files as well. Go to Tools > Folder Options > View. Somewhere in there you'll see a branch called "Hidden files and folders". Select "Show hidden files and folders". Hit Apply and Ok.
Now, you'll see in your mass storage drive a folder called "Private". Open Private > 101ffc31. Then delete glxmdstn. Unplug your phone, and re-open your Photos app.
If this does not solve the issue, try the following too:
1) Do a full backup, with user data.
2) Do another full backup, but without user data.
3) Reformat the phone.
4) Restore the data from the full backup with user data.
5) If the problem persists, reformat the phone again.
6) This time, restore the data without user data.
Ensure you have the critical data backed up separately too, instead of relying on NBU.
Report back and let us know about your progress.
Regards,
haZey
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How to delete photos for good...

Apple has to have the worst phone I've ever had the misfortune to use not because of the phone, the phone itself is a pretty solid device but because of apple lacking any sort of ingenuity or technical finesse in their software design other then turning everything into a marketing kiosk
First time having and iphone and will be the last time
Down to brass tax, before i start some god awful rant about craptunes
Essentially i'm trying to add more music to my phone but i don't have enough space, WHY? because apparently the phone has withheld 1100 photos from existence. See when i use the photo browser on my phone we all know how we cant just look at a feed of our photos anymore instead the dullards at apple decided you can only have a 350 cap on most recent shots and its impossible to view any previous shots without delving into the god awful time consuming collections feature. There's about 5 maybe 600 photos on my phone, i'm not a big picture taker but iTunes says there's about 1100 at 1.75gb how can this be?
I can't even see all the photos on my phone let alone see them if i tried to back my phone up...
Even looking at my photos in collection i can confirm there isn't even that many there, I've had the phone for half a year for pete sake
I can't get over how unintelligent a multi-billion dollar company can be, my apologies but bear with me my non-apple associates!
So what do i do? I know i could clear up more space by delete photos i don't need but i cant even see them, **** i cant even back up photos in a clean jpeg format without plundering a handful of oddly named folders on the windows file explorer and even then i wouldn't have my space back.
How do i delete or even access this hidden cache of said "Phantom" photos
and on a side note why the **** is "other" so large about 2gb for me as well as documents and data yet again another mass of files i have zero control over growing in size daily
Thanks a ****'** lot crapple.
Any help from the community is greatly appreciated.
And if you're an apple fanboy please withhold your flaming my opinion is my own and it was largely influenced by the crap software apple offers.

When you double click on of the these blank thumbnails to view the photo in a larger size do you?
First make a temporary, duplicate copy of the library and try the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your Home/Library/Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache files that are located in your Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder.
3 - reboot, 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 the the Option key. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
Fix #2
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library.
Select the options identified in the screenshot and the option to rebuild the small thumbnails.
Click to view full size
Then see if you can drag the thumbnails to iPhoto's trash and remove them permanently.
OT

How to delete photos off my iphone in bulk

itunes and iphoto on macbook air, and I can't delete all the pics off my phone in one go via the macbook or on the phone. How can I do this?

Hi.
If you wanna delete all of your photos at once, there are two ways.
The first is to use just your iPhone. Go to settings, general, usage, and then somewhere in the list of apps youll find photos and camera. Tap on it. At the bottom there will be a red delete button. Or you can swipe on the part of photos and mass delete.
The other way is to use your computer.
Plug in your iphone to the computer, and open itunes.
Then click on your device. After, click on my iphone.
Then, click on photos. Then, delete.
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PS The first way is easier, although it may take a minute or two to delete the pictures.

A3, the iPad and exporting to computer (deleting photos on the iPad)?????

Ok so here is the setup of what I am attempting to do.
All photos that have been recently uploaded to my Ipad are RAW.
I know that you can upload (import) photos from your card or camera directly into the iPad using the Camera Connection Kit.
Then you can directly export all of these photos into a project in Aperture 3.
But my concern is the fact that once I have exported all those shots into a project on my computer all the photos are still there on my iPad.
how do I get rid of them? Do I actually have to go and individually select each and every one or can I do a mass select and delete them?
The concept of being able to use the iPad and A3 to now eliminate the need for a laptop at an event is really appealing mainly because of cost effectiveness.
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I have the same problem. You can delete photo's from the ipad if you go into the 'all imported' folder, then press the top right button, then press and hold the first photo until it selects, then drag your finger over the rest of the photos you want to delete without lifting off the screen, then finally press delete. HOWEVER, if you import the photo's to your Mac using iPhoto, at the end of the import there is an option to "delete photo's from ipad", however this option does not exist in Aperture 3 (that i can find, anyway...).
One other way would be to import to iPhoto in this way then import iPhoto to Aperture...
Have reported this to Apple as a change request.

N97 - problems deleting photos

I cannot delete photos from my n97, everytime i try to delete any photos stored I get the message "General system error" . I need to delete 127 photos and they seem to be just stuck there. The phone will not even let me sync them to my PC. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sounds like photos app database is corrupted. You've deleted the files, but they're still in phone's indexes/thumbnails cache. If you remove the database it'll rebuild itself.
Connect to PC in mass storage mode, check show hidden files in windows. Open phone's mass storage drive, then open Private folder. Open 10281e17and rename or delete [102830AB]thumbnail_v2. Use safely disconnect hardware in taskbar before disconnecting. Open photos app and it'll search for pics, hopefully the deleted ones will be gone.
If that doesn't help then repeat the above, and also open Images folder and rename or delete _PAlbTN content, then check photos app again.
Final solution is to format mass memory. The thing to note here is that all images will appear in Downloads folder once restored, only pics taken with camera after the format will appear in Captured. First uninstall apps from E:, this is just a precaution as some apps also store data on C: and this will help prevent any potential problems later such as duplicated entries. Use mass storage method to back up user files (pics, music, etc) to PC. Then format mass memory from file manager options. Restore data and reinstall apps.
Formatting mass memory can take some time depending on the amount of data you need to back up then restore, so it's worth trying deleting the Private/Images folder files first.

HT201269 I am trying to save memory on my iPhone 4S/ ios6. Can I back up all photos to icloud and the external hard disk I normally use for photos? If I then delete photos from the iPhone do the get deleted on iCloud?

I am trying to save memory on my iPhone 4S/ ios6.
1) Can I back up all photos to icloud and the external hard disk I normally use for photos? If I then delete photos from the iPhone do the get deleted on iCloud?
2) Can I back up the newsstand to iCloud and save memory on the iPhone?
3) Can I back up the bookshelf to icloud and save memory on the iPhone?

1. What format is the external drive? It sounds like it's ina format that Macs can't write to. Is it a NAS or NTFS?
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1. Quit iPhoto
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3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
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I am unable to delete photos contained in the 'photo library' of an Ipod 6.1.5 and it is not 'seen' by my macbook pro.

The answer given to this question previously doesn't work for me
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Jan 2, 2014 3:41 PM
My ipod was synced to my desktop and now it has 3,787 photos on the photo library. How do I get rid of them?
iPod touch, iOS 6.1.5
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Re: how do I delete photos in the photo library of my ipod?
Jan 2, 2014 4:09 PM (in response to lgutt)
Open itunes, connect ipod, select what you want on the iphone, sync.
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because the Itunes on my macbook pro doesn't 'see' the ipod.
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Is your computer still authorized in the Store menu in iTunes?
iTunes Store: About authorization and deauthorization
When I changed to my new MacBookPro I had to authorize it although I used TimeMachine to transfer my settings and data.
Did you try to deselect Wi-Fi syncing and enable it again after that?
iTunes 10.5 and later: Troubleshooting iTunes Wi-Fi syncing
Did you already transfer your purchases and manually started a backup?

How do I recover a deleted photo from my iphone

how do I recover a deleted photo from my iphone?

The iPhone Photo Recovery allows you to recover data by two ways: Recover from iOS devices and recover from iTunes backup. No matter which way you choose, the first step is to download and install the software on your computer. Then follow the way below to get back your data.
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This data recovery mode lets you recover not only existing data in the backup, but also those data deleted from your device before you made the backup, as long as they were not overwritten.
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I took several photos over the weekend and downloaded them to iPhoto last night. I chose the 'delete photos' option at the end, but today some of the photos were still there. I synced my iPhone just a few minutes ago, and iPhoto offered to download the handful that were still on the phone. I did, and chose to replace the duplicates in iPhoto with the versions on the phone. I again chose 'delete photos' but the photos were not removed from the phone. Is there a way to resolve this?
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To delete large numbers of pictures from your Camera Roll, use the Image Capture app.
Select the pictures you want to delete and click the red stop sign at the bottom.
This might not work if you select too many pictures. Try selecting under 500 pictures each time.
The delete function might fail after one or two times. You need to reconnect the iPhone so the app can reload the Camera Roll.
Used it to delete 3.500 travel photos from my iPhone.

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I sync via icloud and I can not see any folders selected in itunes.
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I get error message: not enough space to download when I try to buy a tv series on Itunes. It tells me to delete photos or videos to make space, but I have no photos and videos. Help?

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I would guess that a TV series takes up a fair amount of storage capacity. It is just a standard message I think that may indicate that you are actually running low on storage space.
If you go to Settings>General>About how many GBs are specified as being available? If you are low on space maybe deleting some apps may help.

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