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November 13th, 2009, 09:42 AM
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| Trashing files/External Hard drive question
I've had the same Acomdata external hard drive for 5 years now (a 250gig) and recently I wanted to clear some of the files I don't feel I need to keep. While the drive was plugged in, I trashed some files and tried to empty the bin. Immediately it started to calculate how many files it was dumping. I probably had a couple hundred files in there, but as it was calculating, the number would not stop rising, and reached the thousands. I let it go for a bit, and finally canceled it, for fear for some reason that it was planning on just wiping the whole drive (maybe this fear has no merit). In the bin there is a random assortment of files, music, pics, docs, etc, and two Recovered Files folders. I went ahead and took everything out of the trash except for one document (by dragging the stuff to back to the external) and then tried to empty the trash again. With one file in the bin, the same error occurred (counting the files to trash into the thousands). Anyone know what the hell is going on? Thanks!  |
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#2
November 13th, 2009, 10:51 AM
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What happens if you let the window keep counting until completion?
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November 13th, 2009, 11:02 AM
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I have yet to do that, as for some reason I have the paranoia that if I just leave it, it's going to erase my entire external hard drive. I have no idea if there's any validity to this fear.
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#4
November 13th, 2009, 11:03 AM
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If the files are not in the trash, then it won't delete them. It's always a good idea to have a backup... just in case...
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November 13th, 2009, 11:10 AM
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Yeah, I agree. As I only have one external and I'm working off my old powerbook with only 60 gigs of space I have no way of backing up my external.
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