How do I delete all photos from iPhoto?

My MAC is running very slowly and I have backed up all of my photos to an external drive. How do I delete all the photos from my iPhoto?

Becky you can navigate to the iPhoto's library which is likely in your Pictures folder in your user account. You can simply move that to the Trash. HOWEVER please please please move that folder to the EHD you now have and have iPhoto point to that drive. Apple explains how to do this in iPhoto '11: Move your iPhoto library to a new location
Once you have successfully moved the library you can then trash the old library and then empty the Trash. I suspect your performance issue may be due to a HD that is too full or it is also possible the HD could be failing too.

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