How to delete pictures permanently from Photos app in my entire mac?

Yes I searched for a long time a pipeline for my work and I found that Photos for sorting out and export + extensions like DxO and Luminar for retouching worked great... until I noticed deleting photos did not indeed, delete photos 😟

Aperture is too old now, I don't like Lightroom and DxO Elite is too expensive right now...

until I noticed deleting photos did not indeed, delete photos

Somehow you are missing it - Photos does totally delete photos that it manages and that is very simple to solve by using the program properly with a managed library - Referenced libraries are not well supported and are unnecessary - and if you choose to use a referenced library you will have problems - if that is what you want you should choose a different program that supports them

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And yet the Photos app preferences enable us to choose to not copy files into the Photos Library.

So, like iTunes, the app should let us organize our file in the Finder as we want...

I really don't like the Masters folder and how the package works.

I'm working on a way around my issue with an Apple Script, I'll see if that solves it properly.

iTunes and Photos have nothing in common except they are both Apple products - you can not edit music with iTunes - it is only a cataloguing and sales tool - Photos is an editing tool with nondestructive editing - your comparison is like comparing a Porche to a Mac truck because both have an engine and tires

Have fun

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Hey Charliie, Thanks for the answer.

But let me clarify, if i remove the tick in order not let copy the photos into Photo Library, and i start just creating events/albums in Photos app from my mac, it will have nothing to do with master folder, am i right?

I actually want to keep all my photos I have in iPhoto and want to delete everything thing in Photos which I do not use except for transferring photos from my iPhone to my iCloud so I can edit those photos on my Mac or use them elsewhere. I need very little storage for that.

BUT Photos has all my OLD iPhoto photos and Apple wants to charge me to use iCloud storage. Which I do not need.

SO I am glad to keep my iPhoto images but don't want the duplicates.

want to delete everything thing in Photos which I do not use

Ok - then you should do exactly that

And again if you do not need i do not use it - really simple - delete what you do not want and do not use what you do not need

Apple wants to charge me to use iCloud storage. Which I do not need.

And again if you do not need i do not use it - really simple - delete what you do not want and do not use what you do not need

Life really is simple if you do not try to make it complicated

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Yes, it is simple. But took me awhile to figure out how to delete everything in one shot.

For me Photo is just an annoyance. I prefer the editing options in iPhoto and would rather Photo would not keep popping up. I actually use a camera. And prefer the dark ages.

Again life is simple - Photos is totally optional - stop using it and use iPhoto or any other software you do like (BTW if you take time to learn it Photos while it is certainly different than iPhoto and does have different work flows it is much better than iPhoto especially in the editing area - more editing options and easier to use)

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there is not such a line in File

In the file menu in Photos? Then you did not import the files as referenced outside the library.

It should look like this, when you select a photo in Photos:

See the following for a detailed explanation of the relationship between iPhoto and Photos and how it doesn't duplicate the storage space -- but also doesn't result in deleting a photo from both libraries when deleted from one: http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/02/the-hard-link-between-photos-and-iphoto/

I was just having a little trouble figuring out how to really delete photos from Photos myself which is why I am here.

After deleting a bunch of stuff, I figured there must be some form of trash or whatever in Photos to actually delete them completely. I had just taken a look at the Photos Library file and it was obvious nothing had really been deleted out of it yet. I was further confused because the UI of the Photos app offers no clues being as minimalist as it is.

Thanks to your post, I found the menu item to display deleted photos that are not deleted and noted a message at the top informing these have a 30 day expiration time on them before actually being deleted but this may take up to 40 days. Well, that's nice I guess but I wanted to recover the disk space now, not next month. So I chose the Delete All button and they vanished from the window displayed.

Then I took another look at the size of the Photos Library file and noted it had dropped about 250 MB or so which was probably about right for the stuff I tossed.

So it seems to me that did work. I did see a decrease in the size of the Photos Library file and that decrease looked about right to me given what I had just trashed.

I'm not sure if this makes some difference in what you were discussing but I chose to import my iPhoto photos into Photos. Then I moved the iPhoto app and it's data file to an external USB drive for safe keeping. So those things aren't coming into play here. There is no iPhotos app on the system now and it's library file has been removed as well. It's just Photos and Photos Library in my Pictures folder along with the Photo Booth Library and a bunch of folders with pics I've yet to import.

iTJMacattack wrote:

... but the important thing to note is that if users are under the impression that they are clearing disk space ...

I dont think there will be many, if any, other users that would expect deleting something stored in one application to be also deleted from another, totally separate application library.

Can you point us to any other app combination where this is the behavior that you expected of iPhoto and Photos?

Oh, yeah. I wasn't paying enough attention late last night. Of course not!

I would recommend doing what I did which is to move the iPhoto app to an external drive along with its library file for safekeeping in case it is ever needed or wanted for something and then just use Photos.

As I mentioned above, deletion in Photos is working as designed and it does work. You can either delete photos and forget about them which gives you 30 days to retrieve any of them if you change your mind before they are automatically deleted permanently or you can use the button to immediately delete them all. That's the new trash basically which self empties every 30 or so days automatically.

I imagine you know know this Rysz, I added that last part for the OP in case any confusion remained at this point.