"Move to trash" inactive.
I use Smart Albums in iPhoto for a number of reasons, which I plan on covering in an upcoming post, but every once and a while I find a few photos that I’d like to delete. Not just delete from the Smart Album but actually delete from my entire Library. Until today I had not figured out how to do that.
The problem: When you have a photo selected in a Smart Album and you want to delete it the ‘Move to trash’ option in the Photos menu is inactive. I thought I had tried every single key combination I could think of, tried dragging the photo, tried to “find the photo in the Library” (like iTunes can do) and still nothing seemed to work.
The solution: Dom Barnes came to my rescue on Twitter. The magic keystroke is CMD + OPT + DEL. Or, Command, Option and Delete, when you have the photo(s) selected that you want to delete. This will move those photos to the Trash (even though iPhoto doesn’t show you this option anywhere).
This is going to save me a lot of time. Thanks Dom.
Thankyou so much been trying for ever!! thought I must have missed something Cheers!
I still cannot do it. I live in denamrk, have a normal pc + an iPhone 3GS I cannot open the pics in iTunes when sync.ing and cannot delete them on the iPhone. I am perplexed as what to do ! Do hope someone can help as I have no Com, Opt on my keyboard I have Ctrl. and Delete but what does that help when I cannot open the pics in iTunes to delete them.
Yours from disconcerted Keith
Hi Keith
i think you are working on a pc, not a mac….
go into your file manager (windows key and e) and you should see your phone name on the left in the folder view…
GREAT!!! Thanks!
BUT: it is not CMD + OPT + DEL: on my Mac it is CMD + ALT + BACKSPACE !!!!
But this is really an amazing shortcut!
Thanks