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I deleted few originals, how do I delete thumbnails?

I have 12 Rolls and amongst those rolls I had quite a few bird photos from my backyard feeders. I created a 'Backyard Birds' folder on my desktop and from the Rolls within my Originals folder I pulled out all the bird photos and put them in my Backyard Birds folder. I now would like to delete these photo thumbnails that still show up in iPhoto (when clicked on the "!" shows up). Is there an easy way for me to do this without going through my Roll folders within the Data folder and finding all the same photos to delete?

I've done the Command-Option while opening iPhoto and ran all of those options.

Thanks!
iPhoto 6.0.6

PowerMac G4 1GHZ AGP, Mac OS X (10.4.11), DSL, Safari 3, Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-108, 2Gb Ram, Two 120gb Hard Drives

Posted on Mar 6, 2008 11:43 AM

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Mar 6, 2008 12:18 PM in response to Wesley

Hi, Wesley. Deleting items from your iPhoto Library folder in the Finder is a surefire way to screw your library up. Close that folder and don't open it again. To delete photos (and their thumbnails) from the library, open iPhoto and drag the images from the library display window to iPhoto's internal Trash (in the Source list), or select them by clicking on their thumbnails and then hit the Delete key. When you've trashed all the pictures you want to, choose the Empty Trash command from the iPhoto menu.

Everything you ever want to do with the contents of your iPhoto Library can and should be done using the commands and options within the open iPhoto application, not in the Finder.

Mar 6, 2008 1:12 PM in response to eww

Afterthought: I should have emphasized above that before trying to delete pix from your library in iPhoto, you must be sure "Library" is selected in the source list, rather than any of your albums. If an album is selected there, deleting a picture will delete it only from that album, not from the Library itself.

I deleted few originals, how do I delete thumbnails?

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