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Once you empty iPhoto's Trash, its contents are gone. But since this would be a Self Service policy, it may not be an issue. When you are ready to take out the digital trash, click the Empty Trash button. Now use the Control (right) click trick to empty the trash. Of course, if a user has iPhoto open when this runs it will still quit it when its done, so just something to keep in mind. Select a hundred-or-so images in that smart album and press Command-Option-Delete. This will put the photo or video back onto your phone into the Photos section of the app or into any albums it was in. Launched iPhoto (in the background) sat there for a few moments, emptied the Trash (the icon bounced in the Dock as this happened), then quit silently. Touch and hold the photo or video you want to recover. tell application "iPhoto"Īs I said, in my test it worked. Using the "run" command instead of 'activate" opens it but doesn't bring it to the foreground so that's some help.Īlso, the repeat loop is to help combat instances where the script could get ahead of the app launching and fail to delete the Trash. The other, and possibly more telling way, is to single. One way is to just right click on the word Trash in iPhoto's menu bar, and select Empty Trash. The only thing is, the app needs to launch so it will show up in the Dock of course. Option click / right click / two finger tap on a trackpad to bring up the context menu and click the trash icon. There are two ways to delete the iPhoto trash. I tested it against a smallish Trash folder in my iPhoto app. I just looked up the AS dictionary and put this together. Whenever you need to move files around on disk it eats up CPU and power.īut… fortunately iPhoto has an Applescript library and it can be done with an Applescript, or from a shell script that runs Applescript command if you prefer. It doesn't physically move the files into some other folder that a script would be able to locate and empty. I believe that when a user "deletes" a photo in the app, all that happens is the photo gets flagged with some metadata to tell the app to hide it from the normal views and make it show up in the "Trash" link in the app. Un-check the box 'Show item counts.' Chris writes: 'I had this problem for over a year, and finally discovered that turning. The iPhoto Library bundle is a complex maze (some would call it a mess) of folders within folders, many with random names, database files, xml and properly list files and who knows what else (and that's not even counting the images which are typically split into 3 versions). You can toggle this option in the 'General' pane of iPhoto's preferences. From a pure bash script point of view, doing this will be nearly impossible.