iPhoto Trash

Busy week, photo scanning like crazy. Even did some for clients, not just friends and neighbours. Then there’s the “Could you just ....” which in this case was “knock up” a couple of slideshows. So I spent a few evenings using iPhoto and Aperture to create something impressive. That’s by the by, the point is I suddenly got a message on my MacBook suggesting I was running out of disc space.
Quick run around the usual places to free up space yielded little, then I remembered that neither iPhoto nor Aperture actually delete files from your hard drive when you move them to Trash within the application. If you look under the File menu in each there’s a command which does delete unwanted images. I guess it’s a double failsafe function but one that’s all too easy to overlook. Me included.
What struck me was all the scanned photos that were lurking in purgatory - nearly 3000 in iPhoto and a massive 7000 in Aperture. Now all gone, permanently.