Empty iPhoto trash on imac

I am trying to empty iphoto trash on my iomac (apparently I have 119,811 items to delete). However, whewnever i do, it crashes the application. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot

you might want to try posting in the iPhoto forum where all the experts on that software reside: https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/iphoto

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I deleted unwanted photos from my iPhoto library, emptied iPhoto trash & Finder trash... this did not free up disk space. please help!

I deleted unwanted photos from my iPhoto library, emptied iPhoto trash & Finder trash... this did not free up disk space. please help!
I have a 15-inch MacBook Pro (Late 2011) with OS X Mavericks 10.9.5
Last week, my 500 GB Harddrive had 120 GB free space. I was feeling crumby and decided to make productive use of taking a day off to lounge around. I snuggled up with my laptop and dedicated hours to meticulously combing through my iPhoto Library. I had 13,000 pictures, and I got rid of those I didn't want. Having said "sayōnara" to about 6,500 pictures, I then emptied the iPhoto trash and the Finder trash. I took delight in the iconic paper crumpling sound of them vanishing into the digital void.
Everything seemed perfect: the photos I loved were still there, the photos I loathed were gone, both trashes were beautifully empty. Having thrown away all of those awful, boring, and unflattering images of poorly light lunches and selfies gone wrong, my iPhoto library was half the size as before! I felt renewed, a little lighter, somehow more free, and I expected my hard drive to be a bit different to.
I eagerly checked my storage stats. My heart sank to see that my 120 GB of free space, was still only 120 GB of free space. I restarted my MacBook; this did not help. I restarted it the next day; this also did not help. It's been 5 days and the hard drive still has 120 GB free space. This is not an emergency and it will probably be a good while before I clutter my laptop to the brim. Yet while I am glad I don't have to see cringeworthy pictures of my ex's unmentionables every time I'm showing off things I do want to remember, I'm still disappointed and now obsessed with solving this mystery.
What is going on? I don't see them, so where are they hiding? How do I get the free space I should have earned from throwing away 1,000's of photos?!

Thank you, Terence!
Yes, I only emptied the trash when it was really full, once I waited until the trash cans contained 2,600 photos and then I emptied them - Oooops! In the future, I'll keep in mind your suggestion of deleting less than 100 photos at a time.
I downloaded the iPhoto Library Manager and used it to rebuild my iPhoto. After a few hours of rebuilding, it generated a new copy of my iPhoto Library. This versions was nearly identical to the original (it was missing 5 photos and was therefore only 5 mb smaller). I guess my Library wasn't defective.
I checked my storage stats, and interestingly, using iPhoto Library Manager did help with the problem that developed after I re-indexed my hard drive. My hard drive is able to properly recognize data categories again, instead of listing almost everything as "Other". Understandably, my free disk space changed from 120 GB to about 60 GB, because my hard drive now contained a second copy of my iPhoto Library as well as iPhoto Library Manager. It seemed like all I needed to do was throw these away, but when I emptied the trash, my problem was not solved. My Hard drive now looked like this:
It appears to me that when I empty the trash, the things I throw away are just hanging around as backups instead of leaving! I went into System Preferences and turned of my time machine OFF. Now my hard drive looks likes this:
The back ups of the iPhoto files, and the program which I deleted, are still on my hard drive some where but now they are listed as "Other" instead of "Backups". Do you know where they might be and how I can delete them for good?

Cannot empty iPhoto trash can why ?

i have 70000 images in trash can but cannot empty iPhoto trash can why ?

If that 70,000 is your entire library just drag the library to the Trash bin in the Dock and empty it.
However, if you have other photos in the library that you want to keep the try this: go into iPhoto's General preference pane and uncheck the Show item counts checkbox:
and then try emptying the iPhoto Trash bin again.
If that fails and you don't use the Rating stars you can do the following: select all of the photos in the trash and Control-click to bringup the contextual menu. There will be the 5 stars for the ratings. Select either 5 or 1 to apply that rating to the photos.
Next create a smart album with the criteria:
selecting the number of start you applied to those in the Trash bin.
Move the photos from the Trash bin to the Library and the Smart Album will immediately be populated with those photos.
You can now select about 100 photos or so at a time and use the Command+Option+Delete key combination to move them back to the Trash bin and empty it. Repeat with groups of about 100 or so photos till they are all deleted. Then delete the Trash bin in the Dock to completely remove them from your hard drive.
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IPhoto stalls attempting to empty iPhoto trash

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In attempting to empty the iPhoto trash containing 3,493 photos, the "Emptying iPhoto Trash..." progress bar rapidly proceeds to 1% of the end, then stalls. No activity for hours. Forced Quit and repeated attempt with same result. There is plenty of empty space on disks. Total of over 30,000 photos in this iPhoto library. I can't find a work-around to empty the trash.

iPhoto will not empty a trash with that many images in it, and attempting to do so may damage the database.
Experienced users suggest trashing in batches of about 100 or so.
Regards
TD

IPhoto hangs when I try to empty iPhoto trash.

I had a lot of photos in my iPhoto library. I saved them to an external hard drive, then deleted most of them from my computer.
Except, they're still somewhere on my computer's hard drive.
When I try to empty the iPhoto trash, the program goes into permanent spinning-beach-ball mode, and the only way out of the program is to force quit. The photos that are in the trash show up only as blank frames.
My question is this: where is iPhoto trash on the hard drive? Can't I just find it and delete its contents without going into the utterly useless iPhoto program? My thought was the iPhoto would be structured like iTunes, so that I'd be able to find & delete as I said. But noooo. Unless I've got iPhoto open, the photos are simply not findable.
Any ideas? Thanks.
The "about" pane identifies this program as iPhoto 09, though that is not one of the choices on the menu offered here.

Deleting the material by hand will corrupt your iPhoto Library - and it'll do the same to your iTunes library as well.
How many items are you trying to trash?

Can't delete empty iphoto trash

Greetings all, first post. Trying to remove a bunch of photos off my Macbook Pro (OS X 10.6.8, iphoto 09 8.1.2). I have over 3000 photos in my trash bin within iphoto. I select and click 'empty trash,' it prompts me to confirm this, I click 'okay,' and then iphoto freezes and shuts down.
I've read some threads and suspect I have too many to dump all at once, but am unsure about deleting in smaller batches.
I've tried selecting 100 at a time and dragging to the system trash and it allows me to do that (drag to trash in dock), but it doesn't remove the photos from my iphoto trash.
Appreciate any help!

iPhoto is known to lock up if you try to delete a large number of photos at a time. Here are a couple of ways to get out of the predicament you're in:
1 - go into iPhoto's General preference pane and uncheck the Show item counts checkbox:
and then try emptying the iPhoto Trash bin again. This method is iffy but might work for you.
2 -if that fails and you don't use the Rating stars you can do the following: select all of the photos in the trash and Control-click to bringup the contextual menu. There will be the 5 stars for the ratings. Select either 5 or 1 to apply that rating to the photos.
Next create a smart album with the criteria:
selecting the number of start you applied to those in the Trash bin.
Move the photos from the Trash bin to the Library and the Smart Album will immediately be populated with those photos.
You can now select about 100 photos or so at a time and use the Command+Option+Delete key combination to move them back to the Trash bin and empty it. Repeat with groups of about 100 or so photos till they are all deleted. Then delete the Trash bin in the Dock to completely remove them from your hard drive.
OT

IPhoto 6.0.4 Quits When I Try to Empty iPhoto Trash

iPhoto quits when I try to empty the iPhoto trash. When I reopen iPhoto, the items are still in the trash.
1.42 GHz,G4 iBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Try the following:
1 - make a backup copy of your iPhoto Library folder
2 - do some edit on the bad photo.
3 - go to the Modified folder in the iPhoto Library folder and find the new modified file.
4 - copy that file to the desktop.
5 - locate the original file in the Originals folder and replace it with the new file from the desktop.
6 - now see if you can delete that file via iPhoto.
If that doesn't work, try deleting the original, modified and data (thumbnail) version of that file. Then rebuild the library by launching iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. Select the first three options.
You'll always have the backup version in case these "fixes" mess things up even more.

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Can I empty my iphoto trash without deleting any pictures on my facebook?
To clarify: I have a homedaycare, and every day, I post pictures of the kids/activities/crafts to albums on facebook so the parents can see what we're up to.
I also post the pics to my daycare blog.
Often, once I've shared the pics on facebook, I delete them from my iphoto library as I really don't need to keep these pictures for myself.
As a result, my iphoto trash has hundreds (no, thousands) of images in it! I've been hesitant to empty my iphoto trash because I've heard that if I do, all of those pictures will be deleted from my facebook albums.
Is this true?
How can I empty the iphoto trash without losing the pictures that are on my facebook?
I've also heard that these pictures will be deleted from my blog as well, but I can't see why they would be, as my blog isn't "synched" with iphoto.

What if I un-sync f/b and iphoto. I usually don't upload directly from iphoto. Most often I upload FROM the facebook page (selecting images on my computer). If I've uploaded that way, am I ok to emptly the trash? Is it just the pics I've uploaded through the SHARE button in iphoto that would be affected?

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I've cleaned up my iPhoto library and am trying to empty the iPhoto trash to get rid of the 33k photos in there. It quits with an error before finishing. What can I do? Is there another way I can get these off my computer so iPhoto won't be so slow and bogged down? Thanks for any tips and advice!

iPhoto is known chocking when trying to delete large numbers of photos at a time. It's best to do them in batches of 100 or so at a time.
First try going into iPhoto's General preference section and deactivating the Item Count option and then try again. Another user reported that fixed it for him.
If that doesn't work iPhoto is known to lock up if you try to delete a large number of photos at a time. Here's how to get out of the predicament you're in:
If you don't use the Rating stars you can do the following: select all of the photos in the trash and Control-click to bringup the contextual menu. There will be the 5 stars for the ratings. Select either 5 or 1 to apply that rating to the photos.
Next create a smart album with the criteria:
selecting the number of start you applied to those in the Trash bin.
Move the photos from the Trash bin to the Library and the Smart Album will immediately be populated with those photos.
You can now select about 100 photos or so at a time and use the Command+Option+Delete key combination to move them back to the Trash bin and empty it. Repeat with groups of about 100 or so photos till they are all deleted. Then delete the Trash bin in the Dock to completely remove them from your hard drive.
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Can't empty iPhoto trash

I've seen a couple of postings on this but it doesn't solve my basic problem.
I recently bought a new Macbook and tried to transfer photos from my old computer to my new one. I'm not sure what I did as I started the transfer before going to bed one night, but it ended up tranferring (or creating, via duplicates) over 100K photos into my new iPhoto. This was obviously a mistake so I decided to delete everything and start over (all of my photos are safely in iPhoto on my old computer). However, even though I have "deleted" all of the photos, they are still on my computer hogging up space...because I can't empty the trash folder in iPhoto.
How do I recitfy this? Do I just delete iPhoto altogether and reinstall it? Is there any other way I can get to these "hidden" files and delete them permanently from the hard drive? They are also slowing down my computer - when I open it up in the morning, the screen is "greyed out" - I have to wait for a status bar to complete to get the screen back to normal. Then I have to wait at least a minute before I can even move the cursor (the wireless will disconnect and reconnect during this process).

iiPhoto is known to lock up if you try to delete a large number of photos at a time. Here are a couple of ways to get out of the predicament you're in:
1 - go into iPhoto's General preference pane and uncheck the Show item counts checkbox:
and then try emptying the iPhoto Trash bin again. This method is iffy and doesn't work for everyone.
2 - If that fails and you don't use the Rating stars you can do the following: select all of the photos in the trash and Control-click to bringup the contextual menu. There will be the 5 stars for the ratings. Select either 5 or 1 to apply that rating to the photos.
Next create a smart album with the criteria:
selecting the number of start you applied to those in the Trash bin.
Move the photos from the Trash bin to the Library and the Smart Album will immediately be populated with those photos.
You can now select about 100 photos or so at a time and use the Command+Option+Delete key combination to move them back to the Trash bin and empty it. Repeat with groups of about 100 or so photos till they are all deleted. Then delete the Trash bin in the Dock to completely remove them from your hard drive.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
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Emptying iPhoto trash causes iP crash

and it rhymes!
Using latest version of iPhoto, I was deleting a number of photos a week ago or so when iPhoto crashed. When I re-opened iP after a restart, everything seemed okay, so I proceeded to add more photos to the trash folder and tried again. It crashed again. It's obviously doing something because all of the thumbnails for the photos in the trash are gone (nice little box with dotted line) and if I try to view a full size image, it gives me a big box with a small question mark in the middle.
The left info window shows the file size, date, etc of each photo still so it seems to me that the photo is still there, but not displaying, not to mention that I can't delete the 1 GB or so of images I have in there. I've tried doing everything in the ctrl-option window but to no avail.
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I can't figure out how to delete, so this has been solved. It was just one file from another persons camera that was causing the crashes. Removed that, deleted all the rest and then deleted the one photo by itself. MAGIC!

What is the best way to empty my iPhoto trash when there are more than 1,700 photos in it?

I never realized there was a Trash in iPhoto. Fortunately, I was reading a discussion on another iPhoto topic, and read that emptying iPhoto trash with more than 100 photos in it may mess up the database. Any suggestions for how to delete 1,7000+ photos from the iPhoto trash?

Make sure you have a good backup and then right click and empty trash.
If the database gets corrupted, you can hold CMD OPT while clicking on iPhoto in the dock and get the options to rebuild.
Regards,
Captfred

My iPhoto trash can will not empty properly-what can I do?

After using duplicate annihilator, i tried to empty IPhoto trash, it worked for hours, trashed a few photos but rest are not outlines only with images missing and still show as present in trash can. Help.

Please read my response to your question here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18141092#18141092.

IPhoto Trash Can deleted my entire library

I bought a brand new 27" iMac at the end of Oct 2010, which came pre-loaded with iPhoto '11 (Version 9.1 (475). I copied photos from my old iMac onto CD-ROMS and then imported them directly into my brand new iPhoto '11 by the select, drag and drop method. I deleted maybe 5 photos which the trash can correctly counted. However, when I deleted my trash can, it included ALL the photos in my entire iPhoto library (4000+) and deleted my entire library. These photos were not visible in the trash can before I hit the delete button.
After that happened, I thought maybe I did something wrong, so I manually transferred the photos to my iPhoto '11 all over again. This time, photos which I haven't even deleted appear in the trash can and when you try to empty the trash can, the message says something like "Are you sure you want to delete 4000 photos?" (i.e. my entire library). Plus it seems that I can't manually move things out of the trash can because they just magically reappear in the trash again. Why is this happening?
BTW I just downloaded and installed the latest iPhoto update, but the problem still persists.
As a side note, before deleting my iPhoto library, I had used Migration Assistant to transfer some files from my old iMac G5 (circa 2005/2006) to my new iMac using a firewire cable. However, as I did not transfer any applications, I don't think this would have affected my iPhoto '11, right? It was only after I noticed that my iPhoto library didn't get transferred to my new iMac that I decided to import photos to my new iPhoto '11 manually.
Apple products seem to be getting worse. I've filed a report with Apple, so hopefully they can fix the software. But what can I do in the meantime?

same thing here. out of the clear blue my trash said it had 800 photos in it (my library has 9000 photos in it). I looked at the ones in the trash and they appeared to be still in the real album, as though I had duplicated some of my photos then trashed them. If i tried to empty iPhoto trash it asked me if I wanted to delete my entire 9000 photos (even though only 800 were in iPhoto trash).
I rebuilt the entire iPhoto album (option command button on launching iPhoto) and picked all rebuild etc. options, took a couple hours) but the problem persisted. Fortunately I was totally backed up from a day or so ago, I checked the backup to make sure it did not have the trash problem, and then had iPhoto empty the trash of the one with with trash problem, and like others it dumped the entire iPhoto library! Yikes
Now there are 2 things on my computer that i could not afford to lose, 20 years of photos, and 20 years of quicken data, so I am VERY careful with those, and fortunately it paid off.My back-up is good and I rebacked up that file, but what a disaster that would have been had I lost all m photos.
so, This is not a minor glitch but a huge software issue that has to be fixed fast, not everyone, despite being told so, has good regular back-ups.
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