Cannot empty trash?

I have an external HDD connected all the time to my iMac, and there were various items there that I deleted over the time. The hdd has 2 partitions, both have been formated on this mac to ExFat.

When I try to securely empty the trash, it deletes some of its contents, but there are many left, and I get the message, and I get the message "Action could not be completed, you don't have access to some of the items."

I don't know what to do, since there are about 200gb in the trash, and I need to delete them

Posted on Jun 9, 2014 4:26 AM

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Jun 11, 2014 7:44 AM in response to tudor96stani

Hey tudor96stani,


Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.


Sounds like you are having trouble deleteing things. Both of these articles should be able to help you get this resolved.


You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1526


Troubleshooting permissions issues in Mac OS X

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963


Have a nice day,

Mario

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