I photo crahses when trying to delete a large batch of photos

I exported my photo library twice by mistake and now I need to delete around 90.000 photos. The problem is, iPhoto crashes when trying to delete the photographs, and I'd really like to avoid moving them over and delete them in smaller batches, it would take me ages.
Is there anyway I can manually access the files in the iPhoto trash and delete them in the Mac trash?
Thnaks for the help.

I exported my photo library twice by mistake
sorry but this is not clear - exporting copies photos form the iPhoto library to your hard drive outside of the iPhoto library and does not change the contents of the iPhoto librar in any way
If you mean imported (as opposed to exported) were you importing a previous iPhoto library into a new iPhoto library? If so you never do that - it does not work and creates massive duplication
Since we have no idea what you have done these are just guesses but if you did import an old library into a new one then simply quit iPhoto and drag the new (bad) one to the desktop, drag the old one to the pictures folder (default location) and launch iPhoto - it will open and convert as needed the old library and you are good to go
If none of these guesses are correct then you will have to open the iPhoto trash in iPhoto (NEVER make any changes of any sort to the structure or content of the iPhoto library using the finder - there are NO user servicable parts in there), select them all and assign a keyword (like trash) and then right click and return to library - then using the keyword to find them delete in small batches (100 or so) emptying the iPhoto trash after each small batch
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