Why can't I delete photos in iPhoto album?

I have been happily deleting unwanted photos but now find that iPhoto will no longer allow me to do that.  I have tried rebooting to no avail. And no, i haven't had any recent updates or made any changes myself. Help!

after trying all the various proposals in the other threads (rebuild library, change permissions, change ACLs, use Onyx to run all scripts, log in with different users with new library), i found my solution, mentioned in another thread
TURN OFF Little Snitch
so that iPhoto can connect to configuration.apple.com, get all my personal information, etc., and then all is fine. Finally, it is possible to delete photos again. You can turn on the iPhoto rule in Little Snitch again after it has connected once.
cheers
fennris

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