Pics in trash?

Hi everyone. I havent seen this issue posted after I strolled through most of the posts. I am using iPhoto (yes I'm a newbie and proud of it!) and I have a bunch of folders set up on th right pane. I have the photos I want in the folder I want.
But for some reason when I open the trash on the right pane I also see ALL my photos there. Why would this be? There is an option to empty the trash but I don't want to do that for fear of deleting all my pics!
Please help in anyway you can. Thanks in advance; these discussion boards are so helpful
Jason

You need to look at your whole Library, to see if the pics are there. (Forget Albums for a moment.) Select Library from the Source Pane. Play around with the view options, if you like, as you inspect your LIbrary. View > Sort Photos > by Date or ...Sort Photos > by Film Rolls (click the disclosure triangle next to the roll name if the photos aren't displayed in Roll view).
The reason I say to look at the Library, as oppposed to any Album, is because your Library shows you your entire iPhoto inventory. It contains each file from your library once and only once. Albums are different: a photo can be in 50 albums or none at all. All photos displayed in your Library are in iPhoto, but items in the iPhoto Trash will not be displayed when you select Library as your source.
So - if the photos are displayed when Library is your Source, then the photos in the Trash are duplicates, and the Trash can be emptied. (Wonder how they got there.) If they are NOT in the LIbrary then you need to move them from the Trash into your Library; with Trash as your Source select all and drag one selected thumbnail from the viewing area into the word Library in the Source Pane.
If you're still not sure move them from Trash back to Library, then look through your Library to see if they are duplicates. Place duplicates in the Trash, then empty.
Photos have to be placed into the Trash somehow. With Library as the Source, selecting a photo and hitting the delete key will move it to the Trash, as will dragging selected thumbnails to the Trash. From an Album, Option-Delete will move it to the Trash.

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Have you tried to empty the iPhoto Trash bin?
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Do you Twango?
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If you gathered them there, then yes.
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Only you can decide what you want to keep.
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You advise not to muck around in the picture file via preview,
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but if I download images through a program other than iPhotos - image capture or adobe aren't I doing that anyway?
Adobe what? Adobe is a software manufacturer who make many excellent applications, you need to be more precise. And no, if you import photos with Image Capture or “adobe” no you are not interfering with the iPhoto Library Folder.
Can you edit a base image file somewhere and remove it from the HD without iphoto making a copy of it and storing it somewhere else?
This is stunningly easy. Don't use iPhoto. Use an image editor.
I want to look the negatives, decide which ones I want and throw the rest away. Can that be done or am I way off course?
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If photos are deleted from events will they remain in the albums I created.
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This is not true:
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This is incorrect:
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As is this:
unless you have older versions.
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Regards
TD

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Regards
TD

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2. Should I use IC to create my own folder structure and then from that point iPhoto to the photos without it making a copy of the files to its own directory?
My opinion: It and a dollar might buy you a cup of coffee:
Why? What would it add to your abilities?
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2. File -> Export: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size.
3. Show File: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
Creating your own file structure achieves nothing extra except in extraordinary scenarios. Old Toad, for instance, does this. But that's because (if I understand him correctly, and please correct me if I don't) he uses two photo organisers for their different capabilities. Unless you're doing something like this, I can see no advantage.
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Regards
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