how do i delete a thousand pictures from my ipad that were imported from CF card?

Connect your iPad to your computer, locate it as any other external device such as a USB key. It will most likely show up as a camera. Dig deep through the folders to locate th photos in question and simply Cut!

The only way that I know of is to import them to your computer using iphoto and from there you can delete the items you've imported to your computer.

It's either that or restore from a previous backup from iTunes. I almost forgot: if you're already using iOS 5.0.1 you wouldn't revert to iOS 4 you'll just have to reinstall the current version of your iPad software.

For a standalone method, one that doesn't require you to hook up to something else, there is a way to delete more than one photo at a time:

• Go to Photos, select the album you're going to be deleting from. Thumbnails appear.
• Tap Share icon, upper right; variety of menu icons appear, upper left (most greyed out now)
• Assuming, press & hold first displayed thumbnail; checkmark will appear.
• Without lifting finger from display, start sweeping over the remaining thumbs with your finger. Each will be selected as you sweep over them. The rest of the menu icons will also come to life, but email will blink out again quickly.
• If you want to do a page at a time, stop when at the bottom with all thumbs selected and press Delete. Repeat as needed
• You can do multiple pages also. Once all on first page are selected, stop, raise finger, scroll up to display new thumbs. Select those in the same way. Repeat as needed, then press Delete.

This isn't as fast as dumping a whole folder or library under OS control, i.e., externally, but it does allow you to do mass deletions on the fly locally without taking an inordinate amount of time.

This does not work for me. When I do this on my iPad the check mark doesn't appear until I release my finger - that is a touch and hold doesn't work but a tap does. Second if I move my finger it just drags the whole screen and doesn't mark other photos.

Any other suggestions?

Use two fingers rather than one!!

The links below have instructions for deleting photos.

iOS and iPod: Syncing photos using iTunes

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236

iPad Tip: How to Delete Photos from Your iPad in the Photos App

http://ipadacademy.com/2011/08/ipad-tip-how-to-delete-photos-from-your-ipad-in-t he-photos-app

Another Way to Quickly Delete Photos from Your iPad (Mac Only)

http://ipadacademy.com/2011/09/another-way-to-quickly-delete-photos-from-your-ip ad-mac-only

How to Delete Photos from iPad

http://www.wondershare.com/apple-idevice/how-to-delete-photos-from-ipad.html

How to: Batch Delete Photos on the iPad

http://www.lifeisaprayer.com/blog/2010/how-batch-delete-photos-ipad

(With iOS 5.1, use 2 fingers)

How to Delete Photos from iCloud’s Photo Stream

http://www.cultofmac.com/124235/how-to-delete-photos-from-iclouds-photo-stream/

 Cheers, Tom 😉

On a Mac, you can use the Apple Image Capture utility to bulk process your iPad photos.

On a Windows PC, there is no Apple Image Capture utility. However, you can follow this procedure to bulk-delete photos from your iPad:

• connect your iPad to your PC using the USB-cable that came with your iPad
• open Windows Explorer, and open the DCIM-folder on your iPad
• you will see a list of folders with "weird" names, which look like this example:

  Computer\iPad\Internal Storage\DCIM\838CPLYO

• for each folder, open it, select all photos in it, and press the delete-key

  note: you cannot delete the entire folder itself, you have to go in and delete the photos in it

• A bunch of empty folders will remain after this procedure, which you cannot delete manually, but they will be automatically cleaned-up after you restart your Photo app on your iPad.

The links below have instructions for deleting photos.

iOS and iPod: Syncing photos using iTunes

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236

iPad Tip: How to Delete Photos from Your iPad in the Photos App

http://ipadacademy.com/2011/08/ipad-tip-how-to-delete-photos-from-your-ipad-in-t he-photos-app

Another Way to Quickly Delete Photos from Your iPad (Mac Only)

http://ipadacademy.com/2011/09/another-way-to-quickly-delete-photos-from-your-ip ad-mac-only

How to Delete Photos from iPad

http://www.wondershare.com/apple-idevice/how-to-delete-photos-from-ipad.html

How to: Batch Delete Photos on the iPad

http://www.lifeisaprayer.com/blog/2010/how-batch-delete-photos-ipad

(With iOS 5.1, use 2 fingers)

How to Delete Photos from iCloud’s Photo Stream

http://www.cultofmac.com/124235/how-to-delete-photos-from-iclouds-photo-stream/

 Cheers, Tom 😉