Aperture can't empty Trash on USB storage (permissions)

Problem:
- Aperture 3.6 cannot delete referenced files located on external USB storage directly attached to my MacBook Pro with Yosemity.
- When I try to empty Trash in Aperture, I get "You don’t have access to the System Trash on the original files’ volume."
The drive is NTFS formatted 4Tb in RAID-1 (Raidon's GR3630-SB3 model).
I have Paragon's "NTFS for Mac OS" installed on my MacBook which works fine and Access Permissions enabled.
At the same time, I tested my 64Gb USB flash drive with NTFS and it worked FINE!
I played with permissions using 3rd party apps like BatChmod. No luck.
I googled and searched this Forum.
People had similar problems with NAS (networked) storage, though if a storage is directly attached, they say it should work as designed.
One solution is a script, though it skipped some of the referenced files - unpredictable results and risks to the master's library.
Any idea how to fix this drive or Aperture issue?
Thanks.

I can't confirm now if drive's trashes can be seen in the main Mac Trash. It's busy replicating RAID1 now. I will check later.
That is your next step. Post back when you can test it.
However as noted, this will always be problematic and if reformatting the drive for OS X is not possible then I'd strongly suggest you get a drive to store your referenced originals on. Given the price of disk, just got 2tb for $80 US at newegg this would seem to be your best option.
regards

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