LaCie External Hard Drive Question

[tradeco]

Hi All-

First time poster here so I apologize in advance if this is in the wrong forum.

My question goes something like this. I had just purchased a Lacie 500GB xternal drive for my G5, I also have another xternal drive hooked up which is a Western Digital. I copied everything , music video files ect... onto the Lacie drive to clean up the WD drive, now when I went to clean up the new Lacie drive the files I deleted are gone but it is not freeing up any space...WHY???

I went to disk utilities and re-formatted but it wiped it clean, is there such a way to delete a few files here and there and gain the space they were taking up without going this route?

thanx

 

[pixproff]

After dragging the files to the trash, did you remember to empty the trash?

 

[tradeco]

After dragging the files to the trash, did you remember to empty the trash?

Ummm, No ...I did not know that I was suppose to, is that the problem?

I am new to Macs, but liking em' more n' more

 

[pixproff]

It is a two step process. A lot of new users have the same problem.

 

[tradeco]

It is a two step process. A lot of new users have the same problem.

sounds good and I forgot to thank you

THANKS!

 

[miles01110]

Ummm, No ...I did not know that I was suppose to, is that the problem?

I am new to Macs, but liking em' more n' more

That's the problem.

 

[tradeco]

got it!

u guys are great, thanx again😎