I have a back up drive attached to my Mac and have been creating back ups on it using time machine. I recently decided to use it for a different purpose and selected the back up files using a finder window and then hit delete. Then I chose empty trash securely (the only empty trash option that was available). This emptying process is taking forever. Is there any way to speed this up? Thank you in advance for your assistance!
at this point the best and the easiest thing to do is to stop the empty trash process and erase the TM drive with disk utility. that will be quick and will get rid of all the backups.