Empyting iPhoto Trash

How do you empty iPhoto trash? Selecting the photo in trash has only restore photo under "Photos" and I cannot find delete or move to trash under any menu item.
Thanks for your help.
Vernon

Brooke
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I am getting "start-up disk" warnings and I am convinced it has something to do with the photos files.
It has to do with ALL of the data files on your computer - you must have 10GB or more of free disk for OS X to work properly
If you are getting low disk warnings you are risking major system problems
You can gain space by deleting unneeded language support (Monolingual - http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/ - is a good program for helping with that
You can delete unneeded applications
You can delete caches - OnX is helpful for that
is the question: When I try to "dump" files onto an external drive, I only end up with thumbnails on the external drive. Can someone walk me through the process simply?
You can move the iPhoto library to an external drive - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive, launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key and point tot the new location. DO NOT move files or folders form the iPhoto library - drag the intact iPhoto library over.
Should I use the files from iphoto or from my hard drive?
You iPhoto library is on yoru hard drive
Also, did I read that the iphoto trash is separate from the finder trash? Would emptying the iphoto trash help to free up even more space?
It is and yes you must empty it for the files to be deleted -- iPhoto menu ==> empty trash
LN

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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.
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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.
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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?

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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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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.
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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.
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and then try emptying the iPhoto Trash bin again. This method is iffy but might work for you.
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LN

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