LaCie Trash Probelm

Hi...attached is the original post from July 2006...July 11th 9:24 from apple community discussions (14148)

laCie "trash" problems - Apple Community

I am having the same problem as that person today.

basically am not able to delete trash bins items when my Lacie (all of them) drives are connected. I did not understand the very last part of your reply to that person about the tiny icon.

thanks in advance.

Hi...honestly not trying to be difficult. I pasted the link from the original individuals issues in my original reply today. I'm having the same problem he is having. he did not mention anything about Time Machine.

His post from 2006 is the issue I'm having current day:

"I am having a rather strange problem with my laCie external hard drive. I have emptied the trash on my desktop. After doing so, if I connect my laCie hard drive, it causes (?) items which I have thrown away to "reappear" in my trash can. Also, when I try to delete these items via my desktop trash icon it causes problems with my Lacie drive. I want to be sure that I really have deleted these items from my computer's hard drive, but now I am concerned that somehow these items are being saved on the laCie. Any ideas?

Your reply from 2006:

"To start with, hold down the Option and Shift keys while emptying the Trash; this sometimes enables locked files and folders to be deleted.

If that doesn't work, double-click on the LaCie drive in the Finder, and then choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu. Enter .Trashes/501/ as the folder's path; if the Finder tells you that the folder can't be found, increment the number by 1, and keep going until you find a number that works. If you've reached 510 without finding a working number, open the Terminal in your /Applications/Utilities/ folder and enter 'id -u' without the quote marks. The output of this command is the number you need.

Once you've opened the folder, open the Terminal and enter 'chflags -R nouchg' without the quote marks, follow it with a space, and then drag the little icon at the top of the Finder window which contains the folder you opened into the Terminal window. Press Enter and empty the Trash again.

My apologies for confusing you with replying to the original discussion.

and I am not claiming those as my words which is the reason they are in quotes. I quoted him because that person is having the same problem as I'm having and I'm hoping someone here can help me with a current solution

whether that person typed it, or I quoted that person, or I wrote the issue in my own words, the problem remains the same. that should be irrelevant to how the issue is resolved.

the issue is clearly stated, or at least as clear as I can describe it. if you do not have the solution or know of one then the back and forth here is not productive.

moving documents and files FROM the external drive to my Mac trash bin is not working. I'm not trying to delete (or format) the entirety of the drive. when the external drive is ejected and then plugged back in, all the "deleted" files or folders end up back in the trash bin.

oh my goodness...why would I intentionally leave information out when I'm the one who needs a resolution?

brand new drive

formatted for mac

use the new drive for documents and folders and for adobe editing

when I no longer need a folder in that drive I click move to trash

when I click empty trash it takes several seconds before items are gone

I eject the drive

plug drive back in and deleted items reappear.

I don't know how more plainly to explain it. I do understand it is an odd occurrence.

thank you for the quick replies! I don't actually use time machine.

thank you....that is not the solution. I just started using a brand new external drive, formatted for Mac OS, and it has the same issue as my older drives, and on different computers.