trash icon not working

You are using the iPhoto Trash bin and not the one in the Dock, right?

Can you describe what happens when you try to drag the photos to the iPhoto Trash bin? Where are you trying to drag from? If you're in an album, slideshow, book, etc. you can't drag to the iPhoto Trash bin. To move a photo from an album you need to select it an use the Option+Command+Delete key combination.

You can drag a photo to the trash bin if you're in an event or in the Photos mode.

OT

I'm using OS 10.6.8 on an iMAC. To delate photos, I've been right-clicking and then selecting the Trash option. The picture disappears but doesn't appear in either the iPhoto trash bin nor the main trash bin. Where have they gone?? I also have a MacBook Air using 10.7.5 and moving pictures to the iPhoto trash bin using this method always works. So it's a mystery.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Graham

What version of iPhoto?

Sorry for delay in replying Terence - been in central London all day.

I'm using iPhoto '11 ver 9.2.3 (629.52) on my iMac. (On the MacBook Air, it's ver 9.4.3)

G.

Bear in mind that if you're in an Album, the trash icon simply removes the photo from the Album, not the Library.

Restart the Mac and try again.

If that doesn't help, then repair permissions with Disk Utility

I've restarted the Mac and I've run the repair permissions utility but subsequently I've deleted some more photos and they still don't appear in iPhoto's trash bin even though they are removed from the Album.

I can't understand why in works on the MacBook Air but not on the iMAC.

If you select a photo and use the Delete key does is get moved to the iPhoto Trash bin? This has to be done in an Event or in the Photo mode.

Thanks very much OT for your response. Yes, when I use the iMAC, if I work in Event or Photo mode, the delete key will move the picture to Trash. Similarly, when I right-click and select the Move To Trash option, that works too.

But I prefer to work in Albums mode and what I still fail to understand is why, when I right-click on a picture, the option Move To Trash is offered, it removes the picture from the album but doesn't put it in the Trash folder. One of the other options offered when I right-click is Remove From Album which, clearly, isn't Move To Trash, but seems to be doing exactly the same. Even if I drag the picture to the Trash folder, the same happens - it disappears from the album but doesn't show up in Trash. However, if I use iPhoto on my MacBook Air, work in Album mode, right-click on a picture, select Move To Trash - the photo is removed from the album and appears in Trash.

I think there's a fault in the iPhoto software which Apple should fix.

In the later versions of iPhoto Command (right) - clicking on a photo in an album does not offer to move it to the Trash. It just removes from the Album.

Apple has fixed it with the newer versions that followed 9.2.3. Just use these key combinations:

Deleting Photos from an iPhoto Library

1 - from an Event or the Photos mode: select the photo(s) and use the Delete key to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the iPhoto Trash bin as follows:

2 - from an ALBUM, smart album, book, slideshow, card, etc.: select the photo(s) and use the key combination of Command+Option+Delete to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the trash bin as above.

NOTE: deleting a photo from an album, slideshow, book, etc., with only the Delete key only deletes that photo from that item. Deleting a photo from an Event deletes ALL occurences of that photo in the library.

Thanks very much for this, Old Toad. When working in Albums in 9.2.3, using Command+Option+Delete certainly deletes the photo from the Album and moves it to Trash. So that's my problem resolved.

It would be nice if Apple read this stuff and fixed this problem so that Move To Trash isn't offered as an option when right-clicking in Albums.

Thanks once again.

But since you do not update your OS you can not use the latest updates to iphoto so you actually have no idea what Apple has fixed or had not fixed - there have been many, many imrpovements and fixes since version 9.2.3 (current version is 9.5) and OS X 10.6.8 (current version is 9.5.1) but you do not have them because you have not updated

LN

Apple has fixed the problem. It's no longer available in the newer versions of iPhoto. It won't get fixed in iPhoto 9.3.2 as that version is several iterations old.

Larry/Old Toad

I would dearly love to upgrade if I could be 100% certain that my computer would run at least as well afterwards. When the first upgrade came, I went to the forums and I would say Apple users were 50:50 divided on this point. About half said "fantastic" and about half said their computer was not running nearly as well and wished they hadn't done it. Having been a Windows user since the early 90s and seen all the problems people had with upgrading to the next version of Windows, and having read the Apple forums, I decided to leave well alone!!

Thanks for everyone's help.

G.

Remember that these forums only represent a miniscule number of the total iPhoto users. It's sort of like judging the health of a neighborhood or community by what you see in the Emergency room of a hospital.

All I can say the later versions of iPhoto and the systems worked extremely well for me.