Unable to empty the Trash in iPhoto.

I'm unable to empty the Trash in iPhoto. I have uploaded all my photos to iPhotos and then deleted any duplicates. Consequently I have 33,000 photos in the trash but every time I select 'Empty Trash', the iPhoto app crashes. Any Ideas?

iPhoto has a big problem, if the Trash is too full. Put only small numbers of photos in the trash, to delete at once.
To solve this, put the images back into an event, and trash them again, in smaller installments, no more than 1000 images at a time.
The question is, how to remove them from the trash, without having to track them down again - if you use the "Put Back" command, all photos will be restored to their projects. I'd suggest you create a new project "MyTrash" and add a new image to it, so that this project will appear as the current "Recent Project". Drag your images from the Trash to this recent project; leave only 1000 or less images in the trash; then try to empty trash. If this succeeds, continue to trash images from the "My Trash" project, until all are gone. You might wish to empty the system Trash in between.
Regards
Léonie

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First, I'm unable to locate any photos in iPhoto. The folder associated cannot be opened and system wide searches for wils are dead ends.
So I have taken all of the 3000+ photos I want to keep and organized them into a folder on the desktop as recommended in this forum.
Now I want to empty the trash and begin all over again with this version of iPhoto.
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You really need to gove more details.
So I have taken all of the 3000+ photos I want to keep and organized them into a folder on the desktop as recommended in this forum.
Not sure where you found that recommendation.
You put the iPhoto Library into the trash and empty that. Next time you start iPhoto it will create a new Library.

I am unable to empty the trash. it keeps saying that it is being used by another task. I have tried rebooting and problem persist.

I am not very computer savy and am hoping one of you can give me an easy fix. I am unable to empty my trash. A window pops up and says, "the trash can't be emptied because it is being used by another task, such as moving or copying an item or emptying trash. Try again when current task is complete." That has been going on for several days. I did discover that my trash contained over 2,000 items. When I tried to empty them this is what happened. I also must have on auto save because everything I've ever worked on is saved.
HELP???

Did you by any chance hit Secure Empty Trash? Restart then see if holding down the Option (alt) key while hitting Empty Trash works.

I am unable to empty the Trash

It says there are locked items and do I want to secure delete unlocked items or all items. I doesn't seem to matter which I check. I can see the delete count decrease and then the box disappears without finishing the delete process.
Any hints?

Can't empty trash:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1526?viewlocale=en_US
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http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html#Anchor-Force-11481

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Tried many times but it just didn't work out. Part of the report is given below -
Process:         iPhoto [479]
Path:            /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier:      com.apple.iPhoto
Version:         9.2.1 (9.2.1)
Build Info:      iPhotoProject-628000000000000~1
App Item ID:     408981381
App External ID: 4641130
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [270]
Date/Time:       2012-02-09 19:36:28.348 +0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report:          93869 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           3
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 92448 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   2
Anonymous UUID:                      500F2944-AF11-418A-B48D-70DB3A7EF04F
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
Performing @selector(buttonPressed:) from sender NSButton 0x2dedcc60
objc[479]: garbage collection is OFF
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94b494b2 CFBasicHashCreate + 130
1   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94b49407 __CFDictionaryCreateGeneric + 1335
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94b48e82 CFDictionaryCreateMutable + 66
3   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94bb6776 -[__NSPlaceholderDictionary initWithCapacity:] + 246
4   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94bb98f8 -[__NSPlaceholderDictionary init] + 88
5   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94b8a534 +[NSObject new] + 52
6   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94c81d10 __raiseError + 112
7   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x94241149 objc_exception_throw + 155
8   com.apple.Foundation                    0x974f7bad _NSOutOfMemoryErrorHandler + 75
9   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94b44e09 __CFStringChangeSizeMultiple + 2089
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94b44491 __CFStringAppendBytes + 961
11 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94b43b83 __CFStringAppendFormatCore + 12435
12 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94b4873e CFStringCreateWithFormat + 110
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94b89219 +[NSObject allocWithZone:] + 89
14 com.apple.iLifeSQLAccess                0x0185a55d -[HgRidArray copyWithZone:] + 45
15 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94b8c289 -[NSObject copy] + 41
16 com.apple.iLifeSQLAccess                0x01869bc0 -[HgRidList copyWithZone:] + 272
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x94b8c289 -[NSObject copy] + 41
18 com.apple.RedRock                       0x01db2e5a -[RKAlbum versionCountAsNumber] + 474

How many photos do you have? 62k is a lot of pics to get rid of. Did you import one Library to another? If so be sure that you're not trashing full size files and keeping the useless thumbnails. Really you need to be very sure of what you're doing right now. I have no idea how someone gets 62k of photos in their trash without knowing how.
The easiest and least destructive way to do this is to create a new Library and use iPhoto Library Manager
to move the material you want to keep to the new Library. This will preserve all the work you've done, metadata, edits etc. Library Manager is a $20 purchase and worth it.
Regards
TD

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Luckily my mac is backed up so I decided to format the disk. When I go into disk utilities and click on erase and select the HD all the fields are faded out i.e. i can't select to erase the disk.
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I find a photo in the Library that I will delete from an album:
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