Trash is showing negative numbers, what do I do?
I just bought a new Macbook pro with OSX Lion and I am trying to delete some old Time Machine backups from an external hard drive. I Placed the files in my trash and I cannot delete them or place them back in the original folder. When I try to empty trash it hits zero then continues on into negative numbers no matter how long I wait! The files only appear in my treash when the portable hard drive is plugged in and also when I try to find the files on my old computer to delete them through time machine itself, they are not there. What do I do? I have already tried sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash several times to no avail. Help!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)