How To Delete Files On External Hard Drive Mac. To recover deleted files from external hard drive you should make sure your external hard drive has been connected to your Mac and recognized firstly. Click Tools option on the top menu.
Double click the external hard drive. May 10 2006. Select the item to eject then choose File Eject.
Go a Get Info command - I on the hard drive and make sure you have readwrite permissions.
Still unable to delete files from your external hard drive after trying the fore methods. Ive tried moving the file out of my hard drive which worked and then deleting it which was fine but the file remained in the external hard drive as Id only created a copy. There are three easy ways to delete old Time Machine backups from an external drive. Then right click the partition on the external hard drive and select Format Partition.
