IPhoto 11: how to reveal shared/published photos in bulk?

How can I reveal, easily and quickly, which photos... out of thousands... have been shared/published?
The only place I can find that info is in the side bar, but publication information appears for only one photo at a time. I have to go through my libraries in bulk.
I have a couple massive iPhoto 11 libraries (+35,000 photos and videos, in each) on two Macs.
(I have a couple of young kids... there are a lot of family photos.)
These libraries each exceed 300 gb, and the computers are groaning under the weight... at this point, iPhoto isn't performing any better than iTunes.
I have back ups, but I want to reduce these libraries to managable sizes... once.
Because iPhotos syncs with flickr and facebook, I don't want to accidentally delete shared/published photos.
At the moment, my working solution is a smart list that excludes renamed and edited photos, and renaming unwanted photos to easily identify and delete in bulk, but it's not a perfect solution.
Many thanks.

There is no easy way do do what you want. Send a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html.
Rather than renameing those photos bound for the Trash bin try using a keyword or flag them. Adding a keyword to multiple photos at one time is rather easy: select the photos, type Command+K to bring up the Keyword pane and click on the keyword you want to add.
I don't know what success you've had in deleting large qualtities of photos at one time but be aware many have problems with large deletions. The general reponse to those that do is to delete is batches of 100-200 at a time. Just a heads up.
OT

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