How to delete multiple photos from Photos?

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How to delete multiple photos from Photos?

I had imported all photos from a friend's iPhone to my MacBook as a backup of sorts while he gave his phone for some repairs.

Nothing happened to the originals, so now I need to get rid of the copies from my MacBook. There are about 3400 photos in total (friend's) and I want to get rid of all of those without deleting my own photos. How do I go about doing it? I do notwant to cmd+click each of the 3400+ photos.

Basically, I am asking for a way to delete all photos from one import session (a particular date and time), without deleting others.

I have found similar questions, but no one seems to be having my exact problem.

Any help appreciated.

MacBook Air, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3), null

Posted on Feb 25, 2018 2:28 PM

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NotBruceWayne Author

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Feb 26, 2018 4:04 AM in response to LarryHN

Thanks LarryHN, for the reply.

I have mentioned that there are more than 3400 photos. Selecting all 3400+ photos from that import individually is not really a productive or time saving task.

I did solve the problem though, I selected all photos and then deselected the ones I needed. Not exactly the solution I had hoped, but it did the job.

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LarryHN

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Feb 25, 2018 3:06 PM in response to NotBruceWayne

Open the imports album and scroll to the import you made, select the photos in that import and press command delete then go to the recently deleted album and delete the from there

LN

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