I delete photos on os x, copy to vista, they reappear? How to delete?

[TheNorthWaves]

This is simple and frustrating. I hope 6 hours of work didn't go down the tube...

It's just as the title describes. I sorted through a bunch of photos in various folders, using either the thumbnail view in finder or the preview program with the sidebar. I used "cloverleaf+delete" to delete the photos I didn't want, and I emptied the trash afterward. On the mac it appeared that deletion was successful.

I transfer my photos to the thinkpad so I can do more photo-sorting on-the-go, and voila, a large number of photos that I had deleted are suddenly back! This really shakes my faith in OSX, even though I love it. Can I successfully delete things in OSX with 100% reliability? This is almost like a joke... (or I am uninformed).

Thanks everyone,

 

[bentoms]

1. Do these files look like "normal" files when booted from the PC Partition or are they lighter?
2. Where these photos in an application like iPhoto or just you desktop?

 

[TheNorthWaves]

1) they look normal and open like normal photos would on any computer

2)I opened photos both in preview and in finder, and used cloverleaf+delete to delete photos in both.

 

[bentoms]

Ok.. so what is the filepath of the files when you find them?