iPhoto: Deleting photos from iPhone?

[Mwindow]

Hello,

So here is the second of my potentially very basic Mac questions.

I attempted to sync my iPhone to my new MBP for the first time last night, but that failed with error 13019 (great!).

I then attempted to import all of my photos from the phone into iPhoto. Simple right? Well actually yes it was, it just took a hell of a long time. After plugging the phone in and launching iPhoto, the coloured spinning wheel (Apple's version of the egg timer?) appeared for around 9 minutes and I couldn't do anything with iPhoto. Is that normal? Surely something built for graphic design etc. shouldn't struggle with importing pictures from an iPhone?

Anyway, once all of the pics were imported I was presented with the option of deleting all of the pics from the phone. I chose no here as I didn't want to delete them all. Once I was happy with the import I plugged the phone back in, launched iPhoto selected the pics I wanted to get rid of and hit delete. Nothing happened. I then clicked Photos>Move to Trash, but this in greyed out.

So the question is how do I delete a large selection of pictures from my iPhone by using iPhoto? Please don't tell me I need to manually delete 3,534 photos manually on my phone

cheers in advance for your help,
Matt

 

[Mwindow]

Not such a 'basic' question then?

 

[Pete Nov]

On mine I just select them either in a batch using shift, then if I want to select individually, use command (cmd), then right hand click on the photo's and then select the trash icon.

 

[Mwindow]

When I select a batch of photos that are on my iPhone and right click, nothing happens. When I select a batch of photos that have been imported to the Mac and right click I get the option of selecting the trash icon.

 

[Pete Nov]

Hmm.. The only thing I can suggest, is to delete the pictures on your iPhone first then sync again. You can delete multiple pictures on your iPhone by going into Photos > Camera Roll and then clicking the arrow in the top right corner. You can then select the photos you wish to delete.

Useful link here; http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-344835.html

Seems to be a method on the very bottom post.

 

[marryaron]

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