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Quickly find unwanted photos in iPhoto Apps
Over the years, I've accumulated a lot of photos in my iPhoto library. Usually I import photos and move the ones I like to an album. It didn't occur to me that all those left over (bad) photos were still taking up space in the Library.

Instead of comparing the Library to each album by hand, I created a Smart Folder with the following condition: Album is not Any. As a result, all images in the Smart Folder were images that were not in any album, and therefore, I could safely trash them (all 300!).
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Quickly find unwanted photos in iPhoto
Authored by: tbolioli on May 18, '05 11:10:06AM

Geezz... I have been putting this "in not any" operator in feedback as a request on iTunes forever. And here they have it in iPhoto 5... I have no need to upgrade to iLife 05 so I never did. I really wish this would make it's way over to iTunes at some point. It really is a powerful operator.



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Quickly find unwanted photos in iPhoto
Authored by: Anonymous on May 18, '05 12:18:04PM
Yep, Smart Folders in iPhoto sure are a welcome addition (screenshot here). You can achieve the same result with tracks in iTunes as described here.

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Quickly find unwanted photos in iPhoto
Authored by: moofie on May 19, '05 01:53:29AM

OK, how do I //delete// an image from within an album, rather than simply removing it from an album? CMD-DELETE removes the image from the album, but doesn't junk it.

I would also be really, REALLY interested in a good duplicate picture finding program. I somehow imported a bunch of dupes, and it's a freakin' nightmare to separate them out.

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Cmd+Alt+Delete
Authored by: gabrielradic on May 19, '05 03:53:17AM

To delete photos from the Library while they are selected in a smart or plain Album, use Cmd+Alt+Delete.

Check out the Keyboards Shortcuts List from the Help menu for other niceties.



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Quickly find unwanted photos in iPhoto
Authored by: rb3 on May 22, '05 01:40:01AM

Lemke Software's Graphic Converter has an amazing duplicate finder built into its file browser; well worth the download.

He's an amazing, responsive developer, and GC is one hell of an image toolbox.

Ran

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Quickly find unwanted photos in iPhoto
Authored by: Gutta on May 19, '05 06:42:01AM

Great tip.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work if the photo in question is only part of ANOTHER smart album. These don't get picked up in iPhoto 4. Don't know about v5



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Quickly find unwanted photos in iPhoto
Authored by: Virtual1 on Jul 24, '06 06:45:50PM

This was very helpful! A bug in iphoto causes it to sometimes toss an album into a random place (or folder) or DELETE the album outright while trying to drag it. I lost an important album this way and googled around without finding anyone that could tell me how to find an album based on a photo that was in it. I could find SOME of the pictures with Find by name, but not all of them. No way to tell what album(s) they are a member of.

As it turns out, iPhoto deleted my album outright, and this trick let me find all the photos I had lost, plus about 2 dozen others that had fallen by the wayside as well.

Thanks!

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