Sheesh!
I'm deleting a Backup off my FW HD of my main HD. I don't need it. I can't just reformat the HD as there are other backups on it. So it's in the Trash and I choose Empty Trash and it is taking FOREVER! JUST TO COUNT!
WHY the hell does the Mac OS COUNT every file? And WHY is it so SLOW? And then once it COUNTS them it has to DELETE them. Which takes forever TOO! It's currently up to 45,000+ files COUNTED! UGH! It's NEVER going to finish!
Is there a FASTER way? Like maybe the Terminal or something? I know when I use RM to delete a single file it is fast because there's no GUI or anything. Even when I delete a bunch of files it's fast, but it does not remove directories. It says "This is a directory, you dummy. I can't delete it!" WHY NOT? PLEASE! I hate the Trash Can.
I'm deleting a Backup off my FW HD of my main HD. I don't need it. I can't just reformat the HD as there are other backups on it. So it's in the Trash and I choose Empty Trash and it is taking FOREVER! JUST TO COUNT!
WHY the hell does the Mac OS COUNT every file? And WHY is it so SLOW? And then once it COUNTS them it has to DELETE them. Which takes forever TOO! It's currently up to 45,000+ files COUNTED! UGH! It's NEVER going to finish!
Is there a FASTER way? Like maybe the Terminal or something? I know when I use RM to delete a single file it is fast because there's no GUI or anything. Even when I delete a bunch of files it's fast, but it does not remove directories. It says "This is a directory, you dummy. I can't delete it!" WHY NOT? PLEASE! I hate the Trash Can.