Deleted photos showing up again ....

isabellaem
Mar 25, 2012 11:05 AM
Whenever I try to delete a photo from iphoto it comes up again when I re-open iphoto but as a grey square with a white dotted line. Even though I empty the iphoto trash and my macbook trash. How do I get rid of these pictures completly ??!! Please help
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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If that fails:
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