MY 160GB LaCie

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Hello I have had this External HD for 4 years now, it worked fine to drop and save my video and music files. So I decided to clear some space to make room for more back up files and deleted what I saw in the finder for this drive. However now when I go to back up I keep getting "not enough disk space" I see of the 160GB I only have 9GB available.

How do I clear what I can't see? In my finder for this drive i show no files or folders..
 

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Did you empty the Trash while the drive was attached? You have to empty it that way otherwise the deleted files will remain on the external drive.
 
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Thank you Thank you

clearing the trash worked... Thank you very much
 

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