I can't delete photos in my iphoto library
I just recently bought my laptop a couple days ago and uploaded around 40 photos. I wanted to move some to trash, but they will not go to the trash. Someone please help me
I have this problem as well.
I recently upgraded a library to iPhoto '11 (9.3.2). I cannot delete pictures.
When I try to delete a photo, I generate the error (in Utilities:Console):
2012-08-19 7:45:31.225 PM iPhoto[509]: -[__NSCFString hasPrefix:]: nil argument
2012-08-19 7:45:31.226 PM iPhoto[509]: (
0 CoreFoundation 0x947e87ab __raiseError + 219
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x9452e602 objc_exception_throw + 230
2 CoreFoundation 0x9474823b +[NSException raise:format:] + 139
3 CoreFoundation 0x947057a3 -[__NSCFString hasPrefix:] + 99
4 iPhoto 0x00a1270b iPhoto + 10557195
5 iPhoto 0x00207496 iPhoto + 2122902
6 iPhoto 0x00208807 iPhoto + 2127879
7 iPhoto 0x00208e9e iPhoto + 2129566
8 iPhoto 0x00993e76 iPhoto + 10038902
9 libobjc.A.dylib 0x9453b5d3 -[NSObject performSelector:withObject:] + 70
10 AppKit 0x907649a2 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 436
11 AppKit 0x907647b0 -[NSControl sendAction:to:] + 102
12 AppKit 0x907646bf -[NSCell _sendActionFrom:] + 159
13 AppKit 0x90762c30 -[NSCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 1895
14 AppKit 0x9076246f -[NSButtonCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 511
15 ProKit 0x01d801f0 -[NSProButtonCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 521
16 AppKit 0x90761b89 -[NSControl mouseDown:] + 867
17 iLifeKit 0x01c842d2 -[IPKButton mouseDown:] + 434
18 AppKit 0x90759841 -[NSWindow sendEvent:] + 6968
19 ProKit 0x01d62c38 -[NSProWindow sendEvent:] + 257
20 AppKit 0x9075481f -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 4278
21 iLifeKit 0x01cb48b7 -[iLifeKit sendEvent:] + 55
22 iPhoto 0x00083ad7 iPhoto + 535255
23 AppKit 0x9066e73c -[NSApplication run] + 951
24 AppKit 0x906118e6 NSApplicationMain + 1053
25 iPhoto 0x00010f40 iPhoto + 65344
26 iPhoto 0x00010409 iPhoto + 62473
(I hope there's no private info hidden in there) This is reproducible.
I have tried:
- delete iPhoto cache and preferences (from Library) and restart
- undelete all photos resident in the trash bin and try to delete a single photo at a time; have tried a number of different photos
- every option for rebuilding presented when iPhoto is run using Opt-Cmd held down when it starts (started at the top of the list and moved down)
- it seems to be able to delete for a virgin library (using a different account, I created a new library and put a single photo in it and was able to delete it)
- rebuild system permissions (Disk Utility)
What else is there to try? I'd love to fix this. I have many, many photos that I'd like to delete (give a 7 year-old a camera and some stuffed animals and it adds up quickly....)
EDIT: I've tried deleting using ctrl-click on photo -> move to trash and backspace, both one photo at a time and in groups; the photos simply do not move to the trash bin; when there were photos in the trash (before I moved them all out) the trash would not empty
EDIT2: To be clear, I am deleting photos from the 'Photos' listing.
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