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<blockquote data-quote="dynasaur666" data-source="post: 1653058" data-attributes="member: 327858">I wanted to clear a bit of space on my external ‘backup’ drive so I deleted more or less all of its time machine backups, excluding the file titled ‘latest’. I was doing this with a view to cloning my snow leopard hard drive, and putting the clone on the external. Once in trash I tried to delete all these old, unnecessary backups. The process took probably half an hour, but then at the end informed me that backup items couldn’t be deleted. Nonplussed, I went to trash. I couldn’t be bothered to get to the bottom of why so I thought I’d just put them back. I tried to, but then the message at the top appeared.So basically now all these files, probably taking up about a terabyte, are just sat in trash- neither deletable, nor usable. Useless.What do I do? D: Help here would be greatly appreciated. System info:-&nbsp; &nbsp; Mac pro Snow Leopard, 2007 -&nbsp; &nbsp; The backup disk I use is a WD Mybook for Mac.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dynasaur666, post: 1653058, member: 327858"] I wanted to clear a bit of space on my external ‘backup’ drive so I deleted more or less all of its time machine backups, excluding the file titled ‘latest’. I was doing this with a view to cloning my snow leopard hard drive, and putting the clone on the external. Once in trash I tried to delete all these old, unnecessary backups. The process took probably half an hour, but then at the end informed me that backup items couldn’t be deleted. Nonplussed, I went to trash. I couldn’t be bothered to get to the bottom of why so I thought I’d just put them back. I tried to, but then the message at the top appeared. So basically now all these files, probably taking up about a terabyte, are just sat in trash- neither deletable, nor usable. Useless. What do I do? D: Help here would be greatly appreciated. System info: - Mac pro Snow Leopard, 2007 - The backup disk I use is a WD Mybook for Mac. [/QUOTE]

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