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Deleting large (backups from external hard drive)files

frank gallagher · 2016-12-07 22:48:11

how can i do this safely, have a massive file of back ups on an external HD and want to delete them, but every time i go to it starts calculating the size and its taking hours and then it fails !

07-12-2016 11:48PM

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frank gallagher

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how can i do this safely, have a massive file of back ups on an external HD and want to delete them, but every time i go to it starts calculating the size and its taking hours and then it fails !

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#2 10-12-2016 10:26AM

ZENER

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Can you format the drive ? If there's nothing else you need on it you could try that, or perhaps move any files you need to keep to another drive and then format it ?

Ken

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