Lightroom 5:  "Remove Photo" will not delete from hard drive

I just discovered that when I am using the "Remove photo" feature from the library, while the photo is removed from the catalog and "deleted", it remains on my external hard drive.  Is there a fix to this issue?  I did go to my external drive and create a file and then delete it.  I had read in other forums that this allowed Lightroom to find the correct place. This did not solve my problem.
Thank you for any assistance.
Karen

Yes I do.
After I posted, I tried it again in a different file (I organize my photos
on my external drive by month and year).  In the month of August file, I
can delete in Lightroom and it deletes from my hard drive.  It appears to
only be happening in my September file, at least as far as I can tell now.
I created all of my file folders 2 months ago, so it isn't something I
just did.
Any thoughts?

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