how to remove ALL photos from iPad2 ???

The easy solution is to get the Apple Camera Connection kit where you can delete them all at the same time if you want. While I haven't tried it, I don't see why you couldn't also do this via iPhoto in a separate folder.

Plug your iPad into your computer, go to iTunes, select your iPad, go to the Photos tab and tell it not to sync any photos.

I'm not at my computer nor do I have my iPad here right now but I think that's where it's at.

Did you uncheck this box and then try to sync and it still did not remove all of the photos? Try unchecking every box and see if that works.

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Tim,

It's odd that these pics appear in your camera roll. That's usually reserved for pictures you take or screenshots.

Here's one sure fire way to mass delete them though.

Start Image Capture while the iPad is plugged in. Select the iPad in the left column. Select > Imagecapture > Edit > Select all. (or ⌘A).

Click the delete icon at the bottom. This should clear out the camera roll. If after syncing again it reappears then something else is happening.

Regards,

Captfred

Always happy to help. 😊

Captfred

Just making sure! I too learned a new tip. Thanks Cap!

Thx Captfred! Our iPad 2 kept its camera roll no matter how many times we imported and deleted via iPhoto. Your suggestion helped us stop the cycle. I hope that we don't have to deal with this sort of thing again.

thx Captfred, hope this goes with the chat......... I have figured out the removel, but that brought another question, when i need to sync it again what will keep it from either removing pixs or causing duplicates?

Perfect, thanks Capfred, also worked for me... PHEW!

FTR, I tried deleting all photos from my iPad2 as well by using the iTunes chacke box under the Photos tab. When I deselected it I got a dialog box asking me whether the photos on the iPad should be removed. I selected Remove. The Capacity bar on the bottom responded correctly, showing no more orange and Photos at 0.01G. A quick look on the iPad shows all the photos still there. Next I hit Sync and during the sync all the orange came back on the Capacity bar, the Photos number went back to 6.8G and, of course, the photos are still there. I tried various scenarios of unplugging and reconnecting etc. I will now try the Image Capture method as a workaround, but this is a bug or something that should be addressed.

Okay, upon further review: the Image Capture trick only works for the images in the Camera Roll. I have 6.8G worth of photos to delete. Image Capture shows five images. Any other ideas?