Emptying Trash on WD My Passport Ultra

WD External and Portable SSD External SSD for macOS
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Hi everyone, I hope someone can help. I recently deleted about 6 months of back up on my WD Passport Ultra, but when I come to empty the trash, I keep seeing messages that certain files are in use and can’t be deleted. I’ve rebooted my Mac with the drive still attached and tried again, but the same messages keep showing.

So, at the moment, the trash in my hard drive is still full and I can’t see a way of deleting!

Can anyone give me a solution please.

Thanks everyone

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Gee thanks people, I sorted it myself!

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Hello,

How did you solve this case?

In case any other user experience the same situation.

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Hi could you let me know how you solved this issue as i am having the exact trouble myself!

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Hi. On the last backup I did, there is a folder which looks like a shortcut (it has the shortcut symbol), I deleted that and a few older backups which I didn’t want and then the trash deleted.

Hope this works for you

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What does the shortcut symbol look like? did this allow you to empty the trash for all your unwanted backups?