Deleting Photos from Hard Drive to Free Up Space.


  1. KIF725
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    Deleting Photos from Hard Drive to Free Up Space.


    I need more space on my hard disk drive. I bought an external drive to store photographs to free up space. I transferred many photos from my laptop to the external drive. Now I'm having trouble deleting the photos from the laptop. Please advise.
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  3. pbcopter
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    Welcome to the forum.

    What happens when you try to delete the photos? "Having trouble deleting" doesn't tell us much.
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  4. KIF725
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    Thank you for responding. Since I wrote the inquiry, I have discovered I can delete the photos file by file, which is dozens and dozens of files! So to revise my question, is there a way of deleting all the pictures in "My Pictures" that is in "Libraries" that will be faster than going file by file?
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  6. pbcopter
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    While in the folder of the photos to what to delete, press CTRL+A (select all) and then press delete.
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  7. KIF725
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    Well, that's simple enough! Thank you for helping!
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  8. Stephanie
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    Hi KIF725 and welcome to Seven Forums :)

    If you need a secure delete try Eraser (freeware) and integrates in your right click, you can also chose how many overwrite passes it makes.

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