Are there items in your trash? Normally, when you delete from external drives, 
the items are gone or stored on a trash folder on the drive (if it's big 
enough). Only items deleted from your mac's internal hard drive are put in the 
mac's trash folder.
On Sep 11, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Joanna West <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> I was wondering if anyone might know what to do when you can't empty the 
> trash. I'm cleaning out my external hard drive, and I'm trying to keep the 
> trash empty in the process. However, everytime I try to empty it, nothing 
> happens. I even went into the menu bar and it told me the action was dimmed. 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Love endures all things.
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Have a great day,
Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
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