How to remove all videos from iPhoto library?

I learned that exporting them would remove them, according to a onetoone session recently.

Exporting doesn't remove them at all. Exporting removes nothing. It just creates a copy outside iPhoto.

To delete anything from iPhoto, put it in the iPhoto trash, empty it and then empty the system trash.

Regards

TD

Create a smart album with the criteria "Keyword is movie":

Select about 100 videos at a time from that album and use the keyboard combination Command+Option+Delete to move them to the iPhoto Trash bin. Empty the trash bin. You will also have to empty the Trash bin in the Dock afterward.

OT

I just thought I could move them without deleting from iPhoto.?

You can't move thing from iPhoto. You export them, and then if you no longer want them in iPhoto you delete them.

Also, I know I'm not supposed to manipulate files in iPhoto from Finder, but that would definitely give me the desired result I'm looking for. Is there no way to do it from Finder without messing up the library?

There is aboslutely no way to this from the Finder without corrupting the Library.

Regards

TD

thanks OldToad.. your response helped me.

To remove all videos from iPhoto, here's the procedure I followed:

(Using OSX Mavericks 10.9.2 and iPhoto 9.5.1)

1. As a precaution and backup, copy all videos you want to keep from iPhoto to a folder on the Mac or other drive.
2. Within iPhoto, create a Smart Album with criteria of "photo - is - movie". This will isolate all movies into one view. Note that a Smart Album does not allow you to Trash items that meet it's criteria, so you have to be creative...
3. Select all items (Command-A) in the Smart Album view.
4. Create a new Event for the items (select Events -> New Event, then agree by clicking Create to move these to their own Event).
5. Give the new Event a name by double-clicking on "untitled event" at the top of the window and typing a name. (This is important if you want to locate the Event later.)
6. While viewing thumbnails in the new Event, select all items.
7. Move all items to the iPhoto Trash by selecting Photos->Move to Trash. This works since you are not trashing them from a Smart Album.
8. Navigate to the iPhoto Trash and click Empty Trash.
9. Navigate to the OSX Trash and empty it.

Or, as I said above, more briefly:

To delete anything from iPhoto, put it in the iPhoto trash, empty it and then empty the system trash.

Part 2 below describes how to delete directly from a Smart Album:

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.

OT

How do I delete the videos without deleting/removing shared ones with Facebook? I tried the command+option+delete but got a pop up that my shared videos on FB would be removed—and I don't want that.

I am trying to break apart my iPhoto library as it's too big (will not fit on my laptop any longer). So, I am breaking apart the library with several that will now be located on my T drive. The videos themselves will be in their own library on the T drive.

There's got to be a better way then going into each event (there are around 3,000 videos).

Thanks!

Log out of FB on iPhoto and never log in again - FB & iPhoto sync so changes made to either are made got the other too if you log in

LN