Hey everyone, I've got some paths that overlay on top of a larger one and I need to remove the part of the overlaying path that extends out past the larger bottom path. 

I've tried to use the intersection boolean but It doesn't seem to work for some reason.

Maybe I'm just not doing it properly, but I can't seem to figure it out.

I've put a screenshot to better explain what I'm trying to do.

Select and combine all orange paths.

I guess there might be groups : ungroup any group.

If holes in black shape are actually white-filled paths, select one of them and black-filled path and do difference, repeat for all holes.

Now you must have two objects : one black-filled compound (with subpaths) path under an orange- filled compound path. Duplicate black one, and select the duplicate and the orange path and do intersection. 

Hey David, thanks for replying.

It took me a second to understand, but I got it eventually. 

I had to do each path manually, but I still got what I was asking for. 

Thanks again!

hydt

I had to do each path manually, but I still got what I was asking for. 

I believe you don´t have to when you go Path->Combine the orange shapes beforehand instead of grouping them as David mentioned.