[madmacgames]

This drives me insane: I can't figure out how to delete a picture when looking at an album. I mean removing the pic from the album (and any other albums it may happen to be in) and deleting the file.

That I can see, you can only do this from the Library. It is utterly annoying because I can see some doubles in the album (multiple imports containing the same photo, but a different filename) but I can't get rid of the extra file from there. I can remove the photo from the album, but it remains in the library and I have to dig through the library to find it... what a pain in the @ss.

I know you would definately not want to always do this, but surely I would have thought there would be an option to remove a pic from the library and all albums and delete the file from within an album, so you do not have to dig through the entire library to find the pic you want to delete (the fact that you have to goto the library and dig just to perform the simple task of deleting a pic seems very "anti-Macintosh" and "anti-OS X" to me). I find myself wanting to do this more often then I want to remove a pic from an album and keep it in the library.

I would think, surely Apple would have put in this simple option, so I post here in the hopes that I am just overlooking it.

PS. I think iTunes is the same way in that you can only delete a file from the library and trying to do so from a playlist just removes the song from the playlist. But honestly I've never found the need to do this in iTunes as the library has a nice search that if I need to delete a song, I can easily find it. In iPhoto, there is no search, so I organize with albums, and when a pic needs deleted, it is rather difficult to find in the library, whereas, very easy to find in its album.

[Old Toad]

Originally posted by madmacgames:
This drives me insane: I can't figure out how to delete a picture when looking at an album. I mean removing the pic from the album (and any other albums it may happen to be in) and deleting the file..

One way would be to create a temporary album and any photo you want to remove totallty from an album (and the main library) you would drag into that album. The run the "Delete Album and Contents" script that's available from this Apple site: http://www.apple.com/applescript/iphoto/.

You could do that once a session and after you've got enough files in the temp album, smoke 'em.

Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.