Hello Peter,

The issue is that “Pictures” is a System name like Documents, Music etc. you 
can ‘move the contents’, but the Folder will not move.
Those Folders are protected by the System and can't simply be deleted. 
ACL (Access Control list) entry onto the Default Folders in the Home folder. 
All it does is deny you the ability to trash those Default Folders should you 
wish.

> On 30 Oct. 2016, at 11:51 am, Peter Curtis <pe...@augold.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone
> I seem to have a problem with deleting my Pictures folder with iPhoto & 
> Photo’s and Photo Booth Library in it.
> It started when I imported about 400 photo’s of a recent trip to Photo’s, 
> they had been previously sorted but when I imported them they became 
> unsorted. I started to resort them but it was taking forever so I decided I’d 
> use Time Machine to replace the Photo’s library (I’d just previously deleted 
> the iPhoto’s library as I don’t use iPhoto any more)
> I went into Time Machine and got it to replace the Photo’s library, after a 
> considerable time it told me it couldn’t complete the replacement (for some 
> reason I didn’t record) so I thought OK I’ll use my Super Duper backup (which 
> had been done the day before) to replace the complete Pictures file. So I 
> trashed the Pictures folder and it said it was starting to do so, then said 
> “Moving “Pictures” to “Trash" and has kept that sign up for the last 14 
> hours. The Pictures folder only contains the Photo Booth Library (8 bytes) 
> since the Time Machine rejection, but the Pictures folder is 6.47 GB so 
> obviously when Time Machine stuffed up something else happened.
> Shouldn’t the Pictures folder be trashed by now? or do I just have to wait?
> Or can anyone suggest what else should I do?
> Kind regards
> Peter

Cheers,
Ronni

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