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Delete photos from iPhone after import

I cannot figure out a way to delete photos from my iPhone after successfully importing them into my Aperture 3 library. This is crazy. Why isn't there a way to delete them other than:

a. going into my iPhone and selecting them one by one and deleting.

b. importing into Aperture, then importing into iPhoto, then delete and eject card when prompted, then delete the new album out of iPhoto.

c. import from image capture every time and have image capture delete after import

I can't think of a reason that this has been excluded from Aperture and even Aperture 3 still doesn't have it. I understand that there are proper ways to reformat a memory card after importing, but iPhone for example doesn't have it's own way of doing that. Please please somebody help. I love Aperture. This however is crazy to me. Why doesn't Aperture support 'delete and eject card'? Even the manual says it is supported. Please help thank you.

Macbook Pro 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 4 GB ddr2 ram 512 mb dedicated vram 500gb 7200 rpm internal hd

Posted on Nov 4, 2010 10:20 AM

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pszaro

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Posted on Nov 4, 2010 12:53 PM

Perhaps you can create an AppleScript to run when the import is complete. You can select the Action in the import settings to have it run automatically.

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Mar 22, 2015 9:36 AM in response to Gerald Gifford

I think this is basically what I said in 2012 in this very thread.

Thanks Gerald, you're right!
Pity, that no one had liked or mentioned your answer as the the one that "helped to solve the question" one.
So, that it would have appeared in the beginning of the thread. It could be frustrating sometimes to go through a lot of conversations during 4 years and miss the right answer.
best wishes

Alex

Mar 22, 2015 2:07 PM in response to 3alexander3

3alexander3 wrote:

I think this is basically what I said in 2012 in this very thread.

Thanks Gerald, you're right!
Pity, that no one had liked or mentioned your answer as the the one that "helped to solve the question" one.
So, that it would have appeared in the beginning of the thread. It could be frustrating sometimes to go through a lot of conversations during 4 years and miss the right answer.
best wishes

Alex

That's OK! I haven't gone back to re-read the posts from that time, but my recollection is that there was much interest in getting images downloaded and then automatically deleted by one piece of software. My idea meant opening another program and using that so it didn't catch on.

I have vigorously avoided letting software delete my images since reading pleas from many who thought images had been downloaded and the software had deleted images from the memory card, THEN they found the images ware missing.

The Preview idea worked well for me and I was in charge not some software doing unknown things in the background.

Jerry

Mar 27, 2015 1:56 AM in response to Not Studios

This method is not longer possible in iOS 7 bu there are many methods to delete photos from yoour iPhone by using windows PCs, Mac, and iPhone without a strange thord parity app in the post linked bellow cantanis these methods and more.
Thanks

http://iphonphone.blogspot.nl/2014/01/how-to-delete-photo-from-iphone.html
https://plus.google.com/110048656132173113003/posts/WEifaP7WnYg

Apr 7, 2015 10:33 PM in response to Not Studios

Another way to do mass deletion is to use Image Capture on the Mac. I was able to delete a couple thousand photos off of my phone and clear up a whole bunch of space...after I synced them with iPhoto/Google+/OneDrive/Dropbox first.

Delete photos from iPhone after import