Apple Users

From my two 1TB Passports and my 250g iMac. That means mixing the files up as some are dupes which resulted in things going into the Trash.

100g on the iMac is just my iTunes library. I've got 90g in two Desktop folders. I have to create a path to open the iTunes library from one of my two 1TB Passports to use on my 250g laptop. I don't want to transfer anything, just take the Passports with the laptop to access them.

But now I have 50g in my Trash I can't empty. The two 1TB Passports are dismounted properly. But the Trash behaves as if it's connected to the 2TB Passport which now contains nearly 1TB.

My Activity Monitor shows less than 3g left. I'll be calling Apple support before the week is out to get the Trash gone without accidentally deleting things from the 2TB.

Everytime I try to take things out to see what will or won't empty, it begins copying thousands of items to the Desktop and I have to stop it. Which is very bad.

I may have to dismount the 2TB Passport to empty the Trash, but I'm concerned since it's configured as MS-DOS (FAT 32). I'd have set it to OSX Journaled, but Disk Utility refused. There were conflicts with Trash before when I first began using the two 1TB Passports, also configured as MS-DOS (FAT 32).

The computer kept having kernel panics until I fooled around and fixed it, but I don't remember what I did. I'm more of an experimenter than a tech. But they both worked fine until the hub died.

I had to get the 2TB Passport because the hub that supported the two 1TB Passports, etc. died on me and I don't have enough ports to make direct connections. I bought three more hubs and one after another, they all died. I am using the USB port on the keyboard for everything including the 1TB drives.

It's working out okay, but right now I can't empty the Trash and it's getting out of hand. Still works, but can't go like this much longer.

Now, this thread was started by pansypoo and I only wrote to help here, when she gets back it could be we and others can help her out. What you wrote me should also work for her.