Delete photos directly from albums in iPhoto?

pixmaniowa

pixmaniowa

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I have tens of thousands of photos in iPhoto. I need to delete some. Tracking down all the photos in the library to delete them takes hours. Is there a way to delete them directly from albums or is there a way to delete entire albums?
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Yes. You can right-click (ctrl-click) any photo and choose "move to trash". You can select multiple photos by Cmd-clicking different photos, or select all the photos in the current album with Cmd-A.
 
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Went and tried the right click trick. That just removes the image from the album. The Move to trash option only shows up in the Library main page. I am trying to find a shortcut todelete from the albums where I have them sorted. Since I have so many files, I have to scroll through hundreds of pages to try to find the image in the library. If I can delete them directly from the album, or the entire album, I can save hours of work. I am using iTunes 6.0.2.
 
From iPhoto Help:

Deleting a photo from the library

WARNING: Deleting a photo from your library also removes it from any album, slideshow, or book in which it appears.

1. Select the photo you want to delete.

2. Press the Delete key.

3. Choose iPhoto > Empty Trash.

You can also delete a photo by dragging it to the Trash in the Source list, then choosing iPhoto > Empty Trash.

If you change your mind about deleting a photo, select the Trash, select the photo you no longer want to delete, and then choose Photos > Restore to Photo Library. You can also drag the item out of the Trash before you choose Empty Trash.
 
Thank you, SatCure, but still off point. I need to delete the photos from within the albums. If you delete a photo from within the album by just hitting clear or delete, it only removes it from the album, not the library. Thus it is still on the hard drive. I am trying to find a quick way to remove photos, which I have sorted into albums, without having to hunt them down individually in the main Library. Even if there were some way to sort them from information by album, that would help. You can sort by roll, date, keyword, rating, or manually. I can't find any way to sort in the Library by Album, or delete the photos from the Library permanently, based on or from Albums.
Thanks for your help.
 
Since this is a learning forum I thought I would publish my solution.

I go into the album and select all pictures.
Then select all pictures using cmd/a
Right click and selct batch change...
Choose title/text
Give all the images a title unique to the album. Since I want to delete them it doesn't matter what title
Use the search feature to find all images with that title in the Library.
Select them all
Hit Delete...
Yeah!!!! I have saved hours of work!!!
Thank you for all your help.
Robert
 
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