Apple not helping... deleting Time Machine snapshots
Having recently gotten a new Mac, I decided I didn't need all the backups in Time Machine from my previous Mac. Being a good Mac user, I dragged all the snapshots I didn't want to keep to the Trash.
Silly me! It seems this won't work for deep mysterious Steve-Jobbish Apple reasons. OK, I respect that.
But then, Apple... couldn't you PLEASE alert me that this won't work? Now I have a trash folder on my external hard drive that is stuck, won't work, can't be deleted. Lots of complicated ways to get rid of these, using Terminal, and scary-looking commands, pop up on the web, but that's not reassuring.
I get alerts from my Mac for the darnedest reasons. Why not for this, that actually is a violation of the Mac interface ("to throw things away, put them in the Trash"), and that causes messy problems???
If anyone does know how to delete the files now stuck in Trash, I'd be grateful.
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15