Empty the trash
I have been using my external drive to backup my Macbook. The backups finally used up all of the 2 TB of storage on my external drive so I deleted older versions of the backups which amounted to approximately 900 GB of trash. I've been trying to empty the trash. The effort is taking over a day and the status image says more than 120,000 items have been deleted. And it's still going.
Any insight as to what is happening? I'm running latest version of Ventura.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.3