How to delete pics from desktop

Question

I accidently moved all my iphotos to the desktop ( copies ) and want to delete them.. i get an pop up message saying they're being used in another application.. do i want to continue? There's 9000 of them, and is there a quick way to delete them, instead of saying "continue" for every one???? It'll take me forever !!!

Answer 1

Open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder, and then select all of the items in the Finder and only those items. Paste the following into the Script Editor window:
tell application "Finder"
repeat with this_item in (get selection)
set file type of this_item to "1234"
end repeat
end tell
Press the Run button; after the script is complete, you should be able to throw the files away. If you accidentally hit the wrong item with it, create or locate a different document or item of the same kind and post back.
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