Error -50 WD My Passport

[marionovitch]

I have a WD My Passport external harddrive. When I plug it into my Mac, suddenly I get contents from the drive in my Trash, but I am unable to delete them. It then tells me "The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50).

Then I can’t eject the drive as it says files are in use (obviously the ones in the trash).

Please help me.

[Trancer]

Welcome to the Community.

It’s possible for the hard drive to be corrupted. I’d recommend running a drive health test using your Mac’s Disk Utility followed by a Repair process.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/866/