Photos won't delete from hard disk

I try to delete photos from within lightroom and i get the message "the photo could not be moved to the trash."
Any thoughts?

That recently happened to me and it was because I had inadvertently left the image open in CS3. Do you have any other application running that might have a lock on these images? Or, do you have the images tagged as "read only"?

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I am using iPhoto 08 v 7.1.5 on Max OS X 10.6.4
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I've seen this mentioned on here a couple of times. Tracing it with these other users what seems to occur is that iPhoto imports the photos to the database but fails to copy the actual files into the Originals folder.
I'm not sure why this happens.
If you haven't used the camera since you can recover the files from the card with an app like MediaRecover
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Yes I do.
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