You know that flash drive full of kitten pictures you carry at all times? Of course you do: we all have one. Sometimes you want to free up some space on your kitten drive, so you drag a couple gigs of old pictures to the Trash on your Mac.
But you don’t see any more free space is gained.
What gives?Well, the files are still in your Trash. You might think there’s a single “Trash” folder on your Mac, but that’s not the case: there’s one for every drive you use. The operating system presents all these as one Trash folder on your dock, but the files themselves can be found in a hidden folder in the root directory of every drive called .Trashes. You can’t see this folder unless set your Mac to view hidden folders, or plug your external drive into a Windows machine.
So how does one go about deleting the files in…
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