How to delete pics from LR ext. hard drive within program.

I  can't delete pics from disk.  Error say finder doesn not support the volume. Using ext. hard drive and not in collection. New macbook pro with LR 4.  Never experienced this problem on PC with LR 3.  It appears this is a problem for other users.  Has anyone founds a solution??

Thus must be a pure Mac-Finder/permissions problem.
In LR, as you corrctly assume, when you are in a folder (rather than a collection), you can hit the delete-key for any image, and you will get the dialog box asking for just removing from catalog or executing a physical deletion also in your operating system.
So I would continue any further troubleshooting in Mac Finder.
If Finder would not support the volume of the external hard disk (due to wrong formatting for Mac?), how can the image be read then?
If only deletion is denied, it might be a permissions problem.
Cornelia

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