Deleting photos in "trash" within iphoto

I have a trash icon within the iphoto menu on the left of my screen.
Iphoto will not let me delete these photos altogether or separately.
How do I do this?

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What happens if you go to iPhoto Menu > Empty iPhoto Trash?
If that does not empty the trash, how many pictures do you have in the trash can currently?

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  • Permanently Deleting Photos and Folders from iPhoto

    I just purchased my first iMac on April 2, 2008 and simply love it. Goodbye Windows. WooHoo...
    OK, now for my question. I am a semi-professional photographer that commonly takes about 500-1,000 photos during any given photo shoot. Normally (on Windows with Adobe Photoshop), I would load all 1,000 photos into my Adobe Catalog and review them. After a few days of edits and review, I may only want to keep the best 50-100 photos and I delete the others. But when I use iPhoto, even if I delete the 900 extra photos from my Library, they still sit in the iPhoto Library folders and take up space. I have opened the iPhoto Library Package and can see the Data, Modified and Original folders with all of the unwanted files, but I was advised by Apple Support to NEVER delete or remove files by opening the iPhoto "Package".
    Is there any way to physically remove the unwanted photos from iPhoto once they are in my iPhoto Library, or do I need to edit and review them outside of iPhoto before I load them into the iPhoto Library which seems to be a permanent thing?
    This is a common process for photographers who take a lot of photos. It's nice to be able to review and edit them before deciding on the best ones to keep. Surely there must be an option from within iPhoto that would physically removed the deleted photos and update the iPhoto Library correctly, without having to open the iPhoto Package and risk corrupting the Library.
    Since each photo will be between 4MB (jpg) to 10MB (RAW) in size, do I need to use another application for my initial sorting, review and editing, then only import into iPhoto the "Keepers"? If so, what application should I be using?
    Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    JeanneV
    As stated above:
    Put the pics in the iPhoto trash and then iPhoto Menu -> Empty the Trash
    This removes the pics from iPhoto and the Hard Drive.
    A couple of notes:
    1. You need to be in the Library view to do this. If you delete from an album it only removes the pics from the Album. To put pics from an Album directly into the trash use the -delete keystroke
    Are you sure that you're in the Library View? This is the most common reason this doesn't work. On a longer shot there may be minor issues with your HD, but first make sure that you're in the Library View when deleting.
    Also, I want to have iPhoto write the "Modified" version of my images on top of the "Original"... to save HD space. Can that be done?
    No. iPhoto preserves your Original file no matter what. This is hardwired into the application and there is no easy way to defeat it.
    You may export all your pics from iPhoto. Empty out the iPhoto Library (put the pics in the trash, empty the trash) then re-import the one previously exported. But this is long winded and will need to be done as your library grows. And, of course, this will defeat the Non-Destructive editing feature of iPhoto.
    You can run a library from an external disk:
    1. Quit iPhoto
    2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
    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.
    Of, if you don't want your Original file preserved, then simply don't use iPhoto. There are alternatives out there. Search on MacUpdate.
    Regards
    TD

  • Why can't I see my deleted photos in Trash?

    I have several photos in Trash that I cannot see.  I have cleared all my filters to show all pictures and I still cannot see them.  I repaired my library and there is nothing wrong.  Does anyone know why I can't see my deleted photos in Trash?

    Terrific, Frank!
    I just knew, if somebody here can solve a tricky Trash problem, it would be you.
    I am trying to explore your solution a bit for future similar cases:
    Finding the Trash in the "Albums" section is disconcerting, since it is behaving more like a project - at least, it is  supposed  to be containing images like a project and not referencing them like an album.
         So, where is the actual Trash container?
    Experimenting with quitting Aperture and then removing the " trashAlbum.apalbum", I found that Aperture does recreate it, when running a "Repair database". Rebuild does not seem to be necessary, if there is not an issue with the library. But without rebuilding or repairing, even adding items to the Trash or emptying the Trash did not recreate this album. Probably Aperture did still hold a cached version. I could not restart the system  before launching Aperture again, because I had a backup running.
    Inside this folder are two folders Albums and Folders
    Just for the sake of completeness - my "Database" folder is showing a lot more folders inside:
    Albums, apdb, Faces, Folders, History, Places, Vaults, Versions, VersionGroups, Volumes
    plus propertylists:  ActiveWebPublishingAccounts.plist, BigBlobs.apdb,
    DataModelVersion.plist, Faces.dbHistory.apdb, ImageProxies.apdb, KeywordSets.plist,
    Keywords.plist, Library.apdb,  Properties.apdb, tmSync.plist, ZoomLevelCache.plist
    -- Léonie

  • Why cant I delete photos from event in Iphoto 08?

    Set to edit in external editor. After trying to open movie, return to event and cannot delete photos. Open and close program a couple of times, reset to edit in new window, re-open program and I can delete, but only by dragging to the trash located in Iphoto window (cannot drag to desktop trash, use delete key, use command-option-delete etc). Works on a couple of photos, then will not let me delete in any manner again.
    Any idea what's going on?
    Thanks
    Dave

    Using Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
    1 - select Photoshop as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
    2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
    3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
    This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
    NOTE: With Photoshop Elements 6 the Saving File preferences should be configured: "On First Save: Save Over Current File". Also I suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always.
    If you want to use both iPhoto's editing mode and PS without having to go back and forth to the Preference pane, once you've selected PS as your editor of choice, reset the Preferences back to "Open in main window". That will let you either edit in iPhoto (double click on the thumbnail) or in PS (Control-click on the thumbnail and seledt "Edit in external editor" in the Contextual menu). This way you get the best of both worlds
    2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
    3 - however, if you get the navigation window that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
    This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
    OT

  • Rate & Delete photos during slideshow in iPhoto '09 (8.1.1)

    Generally, I like the new iPhoto. One thing I HATE is that I cannot find a way to delete or rate photos during a slideshow. In the last version, one option was a trash can, another was a rating. I use the slideshow to see the best, full screen detail of the photo. If it doesn't pass that test, I delete it. I can't find a simple convenient way to do that now. Am I missing something?

    Yes, I can do that. It means I have to click on EVERY SINGLE PHOTO and again to move between photos in order to cull photos. A joy of digital photography is the ability to take lots of shots and choose to keep the best. In the old version it was wonderfully easy to use the slideshow to rate and delete photos right from a "last import." I had to click only once to do it and only on photos I wanted to rate or get rid of. I was hoping there might be a way that I wasn't finding in the new version. What I'm hearing is that a really valuable feature of the old version has been eliminated.

  • Deleting photos in trash

    I have a whole bunch of photos in iPhoto trash that I can't permantly discard.
    How do I get rid of these unwanted photos? I've tried every method of getting rid of them but they won't go away!

    I'm having a similar problem with iPhoto 6.0.4. When I delete photos from the library, which are then placed in the trash, and then select "Empty Trash", all the photos reappear in the library.
    It is time-consuming to select photos to delete and then not be able to delete them, but it is worse when the photos reappear in the library begging you to repeat the process all over again.
    iMac G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

  • How to delete photo's from both Iphoto and source (external HD) at the same time

    I've seen a few postings on this but none seem to answer the quetion.  Sorry if this is a duplicate and I coudn't find the answer.
    I have an external HD with over 4GB of pictures in various folders and subfolders.  I would like to import one folder at a time and go through the photo's using iPhoto to choose which ones I want to keep and which ones I don't.  If I come accross a picture I don't like I would like to delete it in iPhoto and at the same time have it deleted from my external HD.  I have tried the following with no success:
    1. Import photo's to iPhone and delete photo's I don't want.  I did this in the photo's view, not events or albums.
    2. After deleting the photo's I empited the iPhoto recyling bin which then sends the photo's to my Macbook pro recycle bin
    3. I then emptied the macbook pro recyle bin. 
    From what I've read this is how you're supposed to be able to delete photo's permantently form you HD or External HD.  The photo's I delete never end up getting erased from my external HD though.  So now I'm still stuck with a back up of a bunch of pictures I don't want on my external HD.  They are gone from iPhoto but this doesn't help or avoid taking up space.  This only cleans up iPhoto library but not my actual external HD.
    So am I correct that there actually isn't any way to do this other than going through the photo's on my external HD using Finder and deleting them before importing to iPhoto?

    A managed library is the default type that iPhoto creates.  Make sure you have the option selected to copy photos into iPhoto when importing:
    was hoping it would at least keep thumbnails of all my photo's.
    I use a DAM (digital asset management) program which will do exactly what you want: Media Pro 1.  It creates catalogs (libraries) of thumbnails, up to 640 x 480, that is uses to manage the photos.  You can do anything to the photos except edit, slideshows, or anything that requires the full source image when the source files are not available.  You can arrange  photos in Catalog Sets (like iPhoto albums), add keywords, etc. to them even when the sorce files are not available.  When the source files are available you can write that metadata to the source file and rename files. You can use Media Pro in demo mode for about a month I believe. 
    A catalog file for 44,000 photos (178 GB) with the thumbnails set for 320 pixels at high resolution is only 1.5 GB. The larger the thumbnail selected the larger the catalog file will be. 

  • Can't delete photos from iPhone using iPhoto.

    I connect my iphone to mac, wait until the photos are syncronized, press delete photos and after a short process nothing happenes. If I connect my iphone later it's written that all photos are syncronized, I press delete photos and again nothing happanes. How to solve this problem?

    Use Image Capture (in the Applications Folder) to do this.
    Never let your computer erase data without you first checking that the data is safe. Specifically never use iPhoto (or any other app) to delete the photos from your Camera Card. Disconnect the camera, check the transfer has gone correctly and then use your Camera to Reformat the Card. This has three advantages:
    1. You know your data is safe - because you've taken the time to check it.
    2. Reformatting the card is much, much faster - takes a couple of seconds
    3. Reformatting also refreshes the Directory Structure on the Card, helping prevent issues with the card and prolonging its life.

  • Deleting photostream photos from Mac within iPhoto does not remove photos from all devices.

    I have photostream activated on my iPhone 5s (iOS 8.1) to backup all my photos to iCloud. This works great! When I open iPhoto, the stream is automatically updated and my photos appear. If I also delete a photo from my iPhone, the stream is once again updated and the photo disappears.
    However, if I delete the photo via iPhoto via the Photostream tab on my Mac, the photostream is not updated and the photo remains on my iPhone, as well as online via icloud.com. i.e it works one way, but not the other.
    Am I doing something wrong?

    However, if I delete the photo via iPhoto via the Photostream tab on my Mac, the photostream is not updated and the photo remains on my iPhone, as well as online via icloud.com. i.e it works one way, but not the other.
    When you delete a photo from "My Photo Stream" in the iCloud section in iPhoto on your Mac, it will be removed from "My Photo Stream" in iCloud, and should be removed from the Photo Stream on all devices. However, the photos already downloaded to the devices from My Photo Stream will not be deleted.If automatic download is enabled on your iPhone, the photos will stay on your iPhone,

  • HT1338 unable to delete photos from trash file Why it starts but will not not finished task

    can not delete from trash bin on iphoto will start but not finish WHY

    Press and hold the Option key then select Empty Trash.
    If that does not work try solving Trash problems.

  • How can I retrieve deleted photos from trash?

    Please help! My wife accidentally deleted all of the images from the "All Images" folder. This included all pictures in iPhoto and some clip art (about 7,000 files). I am not concerned about the clip art, but the photos are a concern. We had a few dozen events in our iPhoto library. The events are all still there, but the photos are not. There are white boxes in each event where photos used to be. It looks like all the photos are still in the waste basket. Is there a way I can move them back into iPhoto? And furthermore, is there a way to have them go back to the events from which they came?
    Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

    Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the apple and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild.
    when it comes to burning them to a CD again it is only those few that first showed that i can burn...?
    Sounds like you may have a damaged database.
    Try these in order - from best option on down...
    1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
    2. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
    Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
    3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
    To create and populate a new library:
    Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
    In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
    Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
    Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
    Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
    When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
    In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
    Regards
    TD

  • Deleted Photos appear again after iPhoto-Restart

    Hi,
    I am using a large iPhoto-Library from a Samba-shared directory. This works fine for a long time.
    I just realised that deleting of photos and events seems to be buggy:
    1. When tragging a Photo to iPhoto-trashbin in still appears as an events, but also in the trashbin. When deleting the content of the trashbin the event disappears
    2. The crasy thing is is appears again when reloading the app
    rebuilding of caches or anything doesn't help. I tried out a lot
    I checked out in the finder: The picture was never deleted from its original folder. I deleted it manually. Now the thumbnail appears, but the white '?' comes up, when opening the picture
    Anyone having the same probem?

    Hi,
    I am sorry that I was asking a question that was obvious to everyone.
    As I didn't found a solution to make a MacOsExtended Journaled filesystem on ubuntu to mount and share it with samba or nfs (HFS+ seems to be quite similar, but cannot be mounted rw) it tried something different:
    Instead of shareing the mounted filesystem through TCP/IP I am shareing the block-device now. I found an mac app that allows to act as iscsi initiator. To set up an LVM on ubuntu and make it in iscsi-divice is easy. Until now this works quite nice. I guess I will be able to use Timemachine though this mechanismn as well.
    I would like to suggest something to the apple-developers:
    It would be great to have a feature in iPhoto allowing use a local and a server-library. The local library only shows the Photos of the last 12 month or so, but the thumbnails of everything. Everytime you connect your server an automatic sync to the server library (containing everything) is done.
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  • Delete photos after import into iPhoto

    Is it possible to delete the photos on the mac after they have been imported to iphoto?

    Yes, if you're running a default Managed Library. In that scenario the file are copied into the iPhoto Library on import.
    A Managed Library, is the default setting, and iPhoto copies files into the iPhoto Library when Importing. The files are then stored in the Library package
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  • Delete photo after imported into iPhoto?

    I'm trying not to have duplicate photos staying on the same harddrive after I import them into iPhoto.
    So, can I archive the original photo off my hard drive to an external after I import them into iPhoto?
    I know it's perhaps a silly easy question, but I thought that I would ask before I start moving pictures off to my external drive.
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    Assuming that you are using the default (and very strongly recommended) managed library you have no need to keep the source image
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  • Delete photos in iphoto via automator

    I've been looking for days for a way to delete photos that are in iphoto via automator. I'm working on a script that will import pictures from a server to iphoto album, then play the slideshow of the album on our HDTV setup... It's all working except for the fact that if I delete an image from the "server" the slide from the previous import is still in iphoto... any ideas?
    I the record feature (in automator), but that didn't work out.

    Don't think you can. There's nothing in the Automator Dictionary that would allow you to either move an image to the iPhoto trash or to empty it.
    Regards
    TD

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