Unable to delete photos from my ipad2 .

I am unable to delete photos from my ipad2. I am able to select the photos to delete but when I press the red delete button nothing happens. Is anyone else having this experience? Is there a known problem. Is there a solution?

You don't say what type of photos - were they taken with the iPad or synced from your computer ?
Only photos taken with the iPad, copied onto it via the camera connection kit, or saved from emails/wesites etc can be deleted directly on the iPad - either via the trashcan icon in the top right corner if viewing the photo in full screen, or via the icon of the box with the arrow coming out of it in thumbnail view. Photos that were synced from your computer are deleted by removing them from where they were synced from and then re-syncing (if you were able to delete them directly on the iPad, then the next time you synced photos they would be put back onto the iPad, unless you remembered to also remove them from your computer).

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http://ipadacademy.com/2011/09/another-way-to-quickly-delete-photos-from-your-ip ad-mac-only
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http://www.wondershare.com/apple-idevice/how-to-delete-photos-from-ipad.html
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Firstly I apologise for the length of this submission but I need to detail all steps taken to date do you folks can see what I have tried ....and failed!
I run a kids charity and each year taken hundreds of photos. They are organised into events for each days activity. They re always translferred from my Camera Card onto my desktop Mac (Big Mac) and then sync'd to the Ipad.
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