Empty Backups from Trash on Mac

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Randol Schoeberg posted this 14 February 2021

I have a Pegasus2 R8 24T that I use with my Mac.  I made the mistake of trying to free up space by moving a bunch of backup folders from the Pegasus to the Trash folder.  Now I cannot empty the trash and cannot figure out how to get them out of the trash.  Any advice?

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Ranjith kumar posted this 15 February 2021

Hi Randol,

-Is that backup folders are TimeMachine backup folders?

-Have you tried to delete files one by one from Trash?

Please contact Apple Support if you unable to delete any files from Trash.

Regards,

Promise Team 

Randol Schoeberg posted this 17 February 2021

Yes, they are backups.  I will try apple support but all of the solutions suggested so far do not work.

I cannot find the .Trashes directory on the Pegasus HD

Randy-4:~ Randy$ cd /Volumes/"Promise 24T RAID"/.Trashes/

Randy-4:.Trashes Randy$ sudo ls 501/

Password:

ls: 501/: No such file or directory

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