Problems Emptying REJECTED Smart Album

My REJECTED smart album has 700+ images in it and I want to delete all of them - versions and masters. I have done this plenty of times by highlighting all of the images and then using the Delete Masters And All Versions selection from the File menu. Now it's only deleting one image at a time when I do this. Please help.

I can't replicate this behavior. I thought maybe you had Primary Only turned on, but I can delete multiples in my rejected Smart Album even with it turned on.
You could try creating a new project, dragging them all into it then deleting the project.
or
Maybe it's a permissions issue. Try repairing permissions with Disk Utility.
DLS

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At the begining it was working perfectly... but now the smart album is consistently empty, even when i do a fresh iPhone import.
I looked up on the discussions, but nobody seems to have this problem, so I guess i did something wrong...
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I am seeing the same in iPhoto 9.5, Jinme.
Probably iPhoto is stuck, because of the logical impossibility to create a smart album of all photos not contained in a (smart) album. If the photo is in the smart album, it should not be there, because it is now in an album. (just kidding, I know, that this smart rule only applies to regular albums, not smart albums).
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
When I start on the same computer with another account iphoto works without problems.
This tells us that iPhoto is ok and the problem is local to the specific account or Library. Let's see if it's the Library:
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
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Well, they aren't in the libraries that are "split" from another, so I guess that is how you wound up in this situation.
You can simply remake them, takes only a few minutes and put them in your own folder (but then you might have problems with sorting).
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Thanks again I think that Larry is correct and I shoudl put my albums back to gether again at least that way importing a single pic once fixes most of the difficulty.
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Not the same problem, but the same library format. That makes it easy to travel between the two worlds, and I am doing it frequently.
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