Lightroom version 4 won't delete files from external disk

I've searched here and found several people getting this failure and just want to add that I'm having the same problem. I have the latest everything, full stop ... I get the prompts and nothing happens in the end. The photo stays in the catalog. I have resorted to removing them from the catalogue, but they're staying on disk.

I had this problem as well with 4.0 and had to resort to launching LR as an "Administrator" on my Win 7 PC. I just noticed that it is back after the upgrade to 4.1 since it reset me back to a normal launch. I guess I will have to set it back up to run as Administrator again.

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first, sorry for my bad English.
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