To Whom it May Concern;
Please Help!!
I removed a sizeable file from my WD Elements External Hard Drive to Trash on Macbook Pro (Tahoe) alongside many other folders for some routine clean up/back up. All folders were gone except for one. It emptied out this specific folder in the trash as well (Zero bytes on Disk, it now proclaims) but will not delete this now empty folder itself, and will keep saying “The operation can’t be completed b/c the item “XXX” is in use.”
This is now an empty folder. The inside is fully empty. Nothing is being used anywhere by any app.
I do not get why I keep getting this message. I tried it on another much older Mac as well. I tried working with it in Safe Mode. Nothing fixes it. The ‘Delete Immediately’ command is useless. This is something to do with WD, not Mac imo. I moved so many other folders of documents, images, videos to Trash and deleted them completely without a problem.
It is extremely annoying the see that empty folder there in the ‘trash of the Hard Drive’ as junk, but immovable.
This is my 4th WD Elements External Hard Drive btw and it is the first time smthng like this happened to me. My older ones, all three I still use, carry the the ‘Mac OS Extended (Journaled)’ format. This problematic latest one is an ‘ExFAT’ format. I do not what that may mean. Can I alter this one to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as well?
And the Sharing & Permissions section states ‘You have custom access’, whatever that is. The others say things like ‘Read & Write’ etc.
Please kindly help me. I am not good at this stuff, so I always relied on WD to bring about an ease to this process. I am very frustrated. What is this problem? I know I cannot possibly be the only person who suffers from it.
Thank you for your time and reply and sorry for the verbose text. I will be kindly waiting for your much needed response. I’m not very computer savvy, so please kindly try to be descriptive and basic in your explanations.
Many regards,
Lex
