Finder wants to authenticate every time I delete a file.

I can't seem to be able to delete anything without having to authenticate first. I'm logged in as the administrator.
I can move a file but can't delete one.
Even when I create a new file and then immediately try to delete it the finder asks me to authenticate.

Figured out what the issue was. Apparently the ownership of my .Trash folder had changed somehow. Don't know how but it did. Did a chown and changed it back to my ownership and fixed it and now I can delete files again.

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Hey Guys
I have seen similar topics covered in other areas, but nothing as specific as my problem from what I can see. I am moving all my movies and tv shows to my external off my 2010 MBA. With every file that I drag and drop to my external, trash, and empty, I check my "about this mac". I have noticed that the amount of space dedicated to movies is going down (good, thats what I want), but my "backups" is increasing a huge amount and with every file I delete it shows that I am actually losing hardrive space. I didnt take screenshots through the process but I'll try explain the best I can.
Example
100gb of 240gb free. 25gb of movies 50gb of backups.
Lets say I delete a 5gb movie. Instead of getting: 105gb of 240gb free, 20gb of movies, 50gb of backups
I get something like: 90gb of 240gb free, 20gb of movies, 60gb of backups
Hopefully the explanation makes sense. if not, I have a 10gb file downloading and once its done I'll be moving it and will take before and after screenshots.
Thanks guys
Andrew

A picture is worth a thousand words. So here are before and after pics from an 11gb file I just deleted.
Before:
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Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
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res
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I did take a look at the Jira issue you referenced. It suggests that the MediaPlayer be set to null in the MediaView after the last media file has been played and nullify the MediaPlayer reference. However, all this relies on GC to cleanup the resources. (In fact, the sample code in Jira shows a call to System.gc(), which, I understand, is not guaranteed to run immediately.)
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It is rather disheartening that there is not a clear cut API for cleaning up media resources when you are done, instead of being dependent on GC.
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