Trashing photos ?

Hi,
i'm a mac newbie, so when i come to deleting some photos in "my docs\photos etc...it says "finder needs a password", so i type in my admin password, get the trash noise and then the file is still there and not in the trash can...
whats the deal?
any..all thanks welcome,
Osc

Hello again:
I have not encountered that particular problem before.
Perhaps these two articles will help you:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1526?viewlocale=en_US
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1402
Barry

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