Iphoto deleting help

[Luke_Herts]

Hi,
last week I emptied my iphoto trash which was all good. However, now when I delete photos they don't go in the trash folder and dissapear. They aren't being fully deleted as space is being taken up on harddrive. Does anyone know where they're going?

Thanks in advance,

luke

 

[Craikeybaby]

I may be stating the obvious, but have you tried searching for the file names in Spotlight?

 

[Luke_Herts]

Will try but there will hundreds of them thats the problem :/

 

[Craikeybaby]

If you just choose one, you should be able to see the folders it's in and then hopefully see which other files are in the same folders too.

 

[Luke_Herts]

Gonna ring apple on monday as still can't find them and got 450mb left on harddrive!!! Plus point is on tuesday i can delete all school coursework as will all be marked etc.
Have backed photos etc all on external harddrive but scared incase that goes wrong too.

 

[Kasalic]

When you delete photos in iPhoto it moves them to the iPhoto recycle bin, but does not delete them. It's all part of iPhoto's non destructive editing method, even when you delete them they're still retrievable.

If you load up iPhoto and look through the menus you'll find an option that says 'Empty Trash' or similar. Clicking this should give you a confirm delete box and confirming that should remove them from your hard drive.

 

[Luke_Herts]

Thats the whole problem none of the 'deleted' images are appearing there.

 

[joescrivens]

Gonna ring apple on monday as still can't find them and got 450mb left on harddrive!!! Plus point is on tuesday i can delete all school coursework as will all be marked etc.
Have backed photos etc all on external harddrive but scared incase that goes wrong too.

did you do this though?

If you just choose one, you should be able to see the folders it's in and then hopefully see which other files are in the same folders too.

like he said, all you need is one filename and after searching for that you'll find them all

 

[Luke_Herts]

think i've sorted it now (famous last words) now will start a new thread with my new problem...

 

[joescrivens]

what was the solution and how did you solve it?

 

[Luke_Herts]

i found the photos in events section and deleted from there where they went into the trash. A long way around it but it works.

 

[joescrivens]

i found the photos in events section and deleted from there where they went into the trash. A long way around it but it works.

doesn't sound like anything was wrong then, thats where they should be found

 

[Luke_Herts]

i use the albums usually which is much easier, but i will now know what to do.