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Lizziejh

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jun 12, 2016
114
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UK
I have a macbook pro, and attach an external Toshiba hard drive for backups.

A lot of trash is on this drive but I can't see a way to delete it all.

I attach the drive to the Mac
I go to the trash icon on my Mac where I can see the trash on the external drive
I select all and empty trash
I get a continued error saying can't delete as this file etc is in use.

I click continue, and so on, but it's not deleting.
 
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