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Cleaning external hard drive

How do you clean old files off an external hard drive? I cleaned off my computer hard drive and need to save to the external, but the external drive is full of old things I want to delete.

Posted on Jul 19, 2020 4:46 PM

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neuroanatomist

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Posted on Jul 19, 2020 6:36 PM

Drag them to the trash then Empty Trash. Or use Disk Utility to reformat the drive.

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neuroanatomist

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Jul 19, 2020 6:36 PM in response to KayakFamily

Drag them to the trash then Empty Trash. Or use Disk Utility to reformat the drive.

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