Easier and faster to just hold shift and scroll down?

[0x-2a]

Good script... tried it, then realized it's actually not bad to delete thousands of photos anymore via the UI... maybe they've pushed some UI updates to improve this UX without actual "delete all"?

1. Click the checkmark on the first image
2. Hold shift
3. Scroll down about 500 or so pics (not too much though or this won't work)
4. Let the UI finish loading for a couple seconds
5. Still holding shift, notice on hover that checkmarks shade-in for all photos between 1 and wherever you're at in the scroll
6. Click on a photo, hold shift again and scroll down some more click, repeat... (if you don't see it highlight more, just go back up and click what you missed... the checkmarks don't go away)
7. Hit delete

I just deleted 23,000 photos in about 3 minutes. Might be worth a try 😄

[diawinga]

@ShayanYaseen you are right, eventually I did the same thing. Initially I tried the script but it was hanging so I had to re-load it, and it was also slow (even with the images being blocked from loading)

It was faster to manually delete them by zooming-out the browser while blocking the images from loading on the UI from photos.google.com

[wickkidd]

Wow, you're right @y3sh, that was orders of magnitude faster. Great script, but yeah, it would've taken at least 2 days to get rid of all the photos.

[iamandrewluca]

This also worked for me. Just had to Shift+Click a few times till reached the end. Couldn't do it in one go.

[macsir]

The manual operation doesn't work well if you have years' worth of photos there.