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Deleting multiple photos on ipad is terrible

I went on a trip recently, with my iPad as the sole computer for the trip, which worked surprisingly well. I ordered looong ahead of time, and received, the Camera Connection Kit for it, and used that to empty some SD cards during the trip.

And now, wow, do I regret that. With 20GB of photos on there, they synced to Lightroom just fine, but deleting them off my iPad was a chore. Having to tap every single photo to select them for deletion was just absurd.

There needs to be a way to multi-select photos: like, say, utilizing multitouch to touch two photos at once to select all the ones in-between. Or making the photos that are on the iPad accessible via iTunes. Currently, photos do not show up in the lefthand list, and the only management of photos is of those photos that are synced with iPhoto/Aperture. As far as iTunes is concerned, I had 20GB of photos that it had no way to access.

It's not even funny. There should be a fix for this, otherwise the Camera Connection Kit is mostly a joke.

Dual Quad-core Mac Pro, 15" MBP, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Sep 5, 2010 3:23 PM

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Sep 6, 2010 4:12 AM in response to Harry Teasley

You can do this from your computer. Just go to your iPad filesystem (the same place lightroom finds your photos) and delete them. You probably won't be able to delete the actual folders but if you delete all the picture files, they'll be gone from the photo app and no longer take up space on the iPad.

Don't be surprised if it takes the photos app a minute or two to figure out they're gone.

Tom

Oct 7, 2010 1:36 PM in response to Harry Teasley

iPhioto is the best app to import and delete... I'm not saying that it's the best app to post-process... but, at the end of import, it will give you the opportunity to delete the photos you just imported.

I assume that you can do the same with aperture or Lightroom, but I'm not sure...

I was in the same boat as you are and finally decided to use4 iPhoto to import... and it resolved my issue.

Have fun !

Marc

Oct 7, 2010 2:12 PM in response to Korbenonline

Korbenonline wrote:
I can't find the app in the app-store...


iPhoto is an application on a MAC computer... not in the App store... It's part of the iLife bundle...

You have to have a MAC to use iPhoto...

If you use Windows, any Post processing software that can import pictures from your camera will most probably give you the opportunity to delete photos from the device... I'm talking about Photoshop Elements, Corel, etc...

Good luck ! 🙂

Deleting multiple photos on ipad is terrible

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