How DELETE song file...won't allow me!?

Imported songs from my husband's iPod into my pc. Cannot delete songs! Info is greyed out (cannot edit, etc). Says it might be write-protected. Used Windows Explorer and directly deleted file, but now there's an exclamation point next to file in iTunes. How do I COMPLETELY delete these song files!?

There was a recent iTunes bug that prevented deleting. For now, just leave it in your library with the exclamation point. Next time you restart Windows, try again to delete it and it just may work. It did for me.

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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1271663
http://forums.adobe.com/message/6183619
http://forums.adobe.com/message/6180892
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/sync-files.html
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