In the delete message box, change the layout to some text and some radio buttons. Like this:

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What do you want to delete?



(o) this reference only (not the file)

( ) this reference, and the file if it was the last reference.

( ) all references (but not the file)

( ) all references including the file itself



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Not extremely nice, but a good start I think.

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