External hd question

i posted this a few days ago in what i thought would be a more approriate place but got no response. i figure there's a bit more traffic in here.
ibook can't see WD mybook
Posted: Apr 28, 2010 6:33 PM
my macbook pro is in the shop, so i am using an old ibook and trying to access files i have backed up on my wd mybook 1tb USB... when i connect the mybook to the ibook, the ibook tells me i have to initialize it, obviously i do not want to do that. is there any way to access my files from the mybook on this old ibook?
thanks

What version of the OS do you have on the iBook, Michael?
A likely explanation is that at some stage you formatted the external drive using the GUID partition table (to make it easy to install a bootable version of the OS on it for use with an Intel processor computer) . Macs need to be running at least Tiger (OSX 10.4.x) or later to recognise drives that use the GUID partition scheme.
The easiest answer is probably to install Tiger on your iBook, assuming that it is a model which is capable of doing so. (see http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1514 for Tiger system requirements).
The only way that I am aware of to change the partition scheme on the drive from GUID to Apple Partition Map without reformatting the drive (and therefore losing the data on it) , is to use a third party utility such as iPartition. (The current version of iPartition, though, will only run under OSX 10.4.11 or later, so to use it you would have to borrow a Mac running this version or later)
Cheers
Rod

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've partitioned my WD 500 GB firewire 800 external drive into three partitions. My intention was to obtain a bootable backup in the first partition (100 GB) and have the other two as supplemental strorage for future use (200 GB and the remaining approx. 165 GB). After performing an immediate backup of the Macintosh HD into the first partition, I read that a "duplicate", not "backup" was required for boot purposes.
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This is a lot of question, but I certainly appreciate the guidance provided me thus far in my early days of Mac enjoyment. Thanks.
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Hello! Sounds like you have thought it out well. All you need now is to clone your main drive so it will be bootable. You can do that using CarbonCopyCloner, SuperDuper, or you can use the Apple Disk Utility you already have. A lot of people use SuperDuper and others swear by some of the others. Below are listed Kappy's steps to do it using the disk utility. I use several bootable backups just for peace of mind. I generally clone to one and then the other so if something happens during the cloning (such as a power outage) I'll still have a drive that works. I usually make a clone about once a month and then backup any important documents every day to a flash drive, cd/dvd, or another hard drive volume. Once you make a clone you should always boot from it to make sure it's booting ok. Sometimes a clone will fail to boot. I also HIGHLY recommend obtaining and using DISKWARRIOR. Diskwarrior is the "gold standard" for disk drive directory maintenance which is the leading cause of hard drive problems. Using DW about once a month or after any force shutdown, forced re-start, or power outage will head off most disk problems. Tom
Kappy's Steps to Produce a bootable clone
Prep external FW drive:
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
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6. Select the startup or source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
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Is the PXIe-PCIe8361 adequate for this system? And external clock questions...

Hi all,
I have spent some time piecing together a system and I'd like a sanity check before pulling the trigger on this purchase. The system will contain the following hardware:
1. Chassis: PXIe-1078
2. Controller: PXIe-PCIe8361
3. 3 x PXIe-6363 (16 analog inputs each card, 32 digital inputs each card, all internally clocked @ 10kHz)
4. 2 x PXI-6224 (32 digital inputs on one, 8 digital inputs on the other, externally clocked in "bursts" of 62.5khz)
5. Labview software
The three PXI-6363 cards will be responsible for a mix of analog and digital measurements made @ 10 kHz, timed continuously by the onboard clock.
One PXI-6224 will be clocked externally @ 62.5 kHz and will be used to collect digital data on a 32-bit port. These clock pulses will not be continuous, but will occur in bursts lasting for 2ms every 20ms.
The other PXI-6224 will be clocked externally @ 62.5kHz as well and will be used to collect digital data on an 8-bit port. These clock pulses will not be continuous, but will occur in bursts lasting for 2 ms at random intervals.
My questions are:
1. Am I planning anything that looks unreasonable for this hardware?
2. Should I expect issues with data transfer rates with the PXIe-PCIe8361? I will be operating well within the advertised 110MB/s throughput of the device. I plan to stream this method... NI Fast TDMS data streaming
3. I have only ever used NI cards for continuous measurements made by an onboard clock. When I set up a task to collect data that is externally-timed, will the DAQ be expecting a "continuous" clock pulse, or will the system wait patiently for clock pulses to arrive at any rate (any rate within the spec of the card, of course)?
Thanks, any input is appreciated.

Hello LucasH0011
1-As long as you put the PXI-6224 and the PXIe-6363 cards in the corresponding slots, meaning the express(PXIe-6363) in the express and the hybrid(PXI-6224) in the hybrid.
2-I think you would not have issues with the transfer rate.
3-Your timing specifications sound reasonable to me, I think you will be fine.
Here is a document that has useful concepts for the use of cards:
http://www.ni.com/white-paper/3615/en/
It is for the M-Series, but the concepts apply to the X-Series as well.
Regards
Ernesto

Backup to external drive question

Alright, so I have been trying to partition my Macbook HD for a little while now (to install Bootcamp), but it is now telling me to backup all data and format my HD.
So, after looking around for a little while, I found a backup program on the Apple download site called "SmartBackup". It says that I should be able to backup my information to any external HD. I have a 250GB external HD that is in NTFS format (so I can use it on my Windows Desktop, too).
My question is, will I have to partition the external drive to be in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format to do a proper backup? I've been a Mac user for a while, and this is my first time doing a full backup to an external HD. Also, if I partition my external drive, do you know if it will erase the data currently on the external drive?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
may I suggest a setup for the external HD with two partitions, one for OSX and one for NTFS:
Open Disk Utility (found in Applications / System Applications) - choose your external drive from the left pane - go to the Partition Tab - from Volume Scheme choose two partitions - set the size of the partitions - click on Options to verify that GUID is set - click on the first partition and choose HFS+ as file format - click on the second partition and choose MS-DOS (is FAT32) as file system
Start the process by clicking on Partition.
To get NTFS (if wanted) for the second partition you have to reformat it while in Windows since Disk Utility can not do this.
Use SuperDuper http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html to make a full bootable backup of your internal OSX system to the external HD (makes it easier to do what you need).
Caution: Using the a.m. procedure will delete all files that curently are on your external harddisk !
Regards
Stefan

IMac as external monitor questions

I have an HP 6930p laptop from work and would like to connect my new 27" iMac to it to use as a larger monitor. The HP only has a VGA port, so I was hoping to find out if it's possible to connect this somehow to the iMac?? I didn't know if this could really be done with adapters, etc.
One other question: I know you can use the iMac as an external monitor for a MacBook laptop, but will this also work if you're running a PC operating system via VM-Ware on the MacBook??
Thanks so much

You can only use your 27" iMac for a device with DisplayPort output. To use your Windows laptop with VGA output you would need to find a 3rd party adapter specially designed to convert the VGA output to DisplayPort output. Then you would need a cable that went from the adapter to the iMac that has a mini-DisplayPort connector on the iMac's end.
As long as the MacBook has a DisplayPort there should be no issue with Windows on a virtual machine. You just need a cable with the correct connectors when it is DisplayPort to DisplayPort.
Dah•veed

SQL and External table question

Hello averyone,
I have a file to be read as an external table part of it is below:
ISO-10303-21;
HEADER;
FILE_DESCRIPTION((''),'2;1');
FILE_NAME('BRACKET','2005-07-08T',('broilo'),(''),
'PRO/ENGINEER BY PARAMETRIC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, 2004400',
'PRO/ENGINEER BY PARAMETRIC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, 2004400','');
FILE_SCHEMA(('CONFIG_CONTROL_DESIGN'));
ENDSEC;
DATA;
#5=CARTESIAN_POINT('',(5.5E0,5.5E0,-5.1E1));
#6=DIRECTION('',(0.E0,0.E0,1.E0));
#7=DIRECTION('',(-1.E0,0.E0,0.E0));
#8=AXIS2_PLACEMENT_3D('',#5,#6,#7);
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The second question is: since the fields of interest are separated by commas and the first field does not interest me (it is solved with a varchar2) how can I read the following fields as numbers ignoring the (,# and ) characters please?
Thanks for any help.
Sincerely yours,
André Luiz

The SKIP option can be used with SQL*Loader to skip a certain number of lines before starting to load. Off hand I cannot see any easy way to load the data in the format given. The format does not resemble a typical CVS format. You can look at the test cases provided for SQ*Loader in the Oracle® Database Utilities guide - or simply write PL/SQL code to load this data manually using UTL_FILE.

External keyboard questions

I want to buy an external keyboard for use when I'm not traveling. I am considering the Apple Wireless Pro keyboard and would welcome any opinions about that one or any others (wireless OR wired) you like or dislike.
Another question is about mice/trackballs. I was told that the wireless keyboards (at least the Apple) don't have USB, so if that's the case then essentially one is compelled to make two purchases, correct (keyboard and input device)?
As regards the mouse or trackball, if their control software isn't Intel-native, any reason why it wouldn't work as well on MBP as on PPCs? I've used Kensington in the past but they are, in my view, non-committal about if they plan to spport the Intel Macs re their Mouseworks software. I wonder how important it is whether they do as regards the performance of Mouseworks, I'd love to hear about any wireless trackballs anyone likes.
Thanks for all the help.
Richard Huggins

The Apple wireless keyboard works great for me. There are many others out there, I'd look at Logitech, Kensington, Belkin, Microsoft, roughly in that order. The most important thing is to try them out first to see which ones feel good to you.
I agree about the battery issue with mice - I use rechargeable wireless mice for that reason. Cost a bit more, but well worth it to avoid the hassle of replacing batteries.
This battery issue isn't really present with keyboards. The batteries on my wireless Apple keyboards last for a few months at least. The amount of throughput pumped out by a keyboard (and therefore the amount of battery energy needed) is much, much less than a mouse. Moving your mouse a few inches on the screen sends many, many (x,y) events to the computer. Probably a lot more information than it took for me to type this entire post.
On the mouse software issue, I've never installed the software for mice on my Mac. I used to avoid it unless absolutely necessary on my Windows machines as well. They usually cause more trouble than they are worth, if they work at all. I use my Logitech mouse with the standard mouse driver on MacOS, no problems. The only reason you might want MacOS software support is if the mouse has tons of extra buttons that you really want to map to various actions. I can map many of the buttons on my Logitech mouse with the MacOS preferences panels (e.g., map buttons to trigger Expose and the Dashboard), but I only use 3 of them (left, right, and the scrollwheel button).
Kensington makes the best trackballs in my opinion. I haven't used one in a long time, but I was always happy with them.

Simple external drive question please

Hi all, quick and probably rather basic question here....
I have a mac mini which we use as a family internet channel, email and the occasional synching of an Iphone and iPod Touch. I am getting memory almost full messages from my mac mini. It is. However rather than going through files and deleting I would like just to be able to expand the mini with one of the stackable external drive options.
The apple 500Mb Time Machine looks expensive compared to the IOMEGA Tb, does anyone have any advice/ recommendations...I have no other back up source so upgrading the internal drive is going to get messy.
Hope you can help, I would like to purchase and get this issue resolved asap.

First off, you'd be wise to address this issue ASAP: OSX gets very unhappy when it runs out of space on the hard drive.
I'd recommend that you get an external hard drive that connects via Firewire. (Most of these will also have the option of connecting via USB, but you should use the firewire connection for best speed and reliability.)
You can simply connect the drive and then use DiskUtility to erase and reformat it as Mac OSX Extended (Journaled). If you have a PPC Mini (2 USB ports on the back) be sure to use the Apple Partition Map. If you have an Intel Mini (4 usb ports) be sure to use the GUID partition scheme.
Once properly formatted, you can clone your internal drive to the external using the free feature of SuperDuper! . I would then use System Preferences > Startup Disk to set the external as your startup drive.
Be sure to verify the health of your internal with DiskUtility before you clone it.
I'd also be sure to get as much free space as possible on your internal before starting any of this procedure, as OSX doesn't treat you well if you run out of space in the middle of an important process.
BTW I run my Mini exactly as I describe above, booting from a 250 Gig firewire external drive.
SuperDuper! is available for download here:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/
the cloning feature is free.
There is a decent selection of firewire externals at OWC:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/
Another option would be to let OWC handle the whole cloning process. For a $99 fee (plus parts cost) they will install a larger internal drive (and other options) and clone your old drive onto it:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/mac-mini/install/
You can get up to a 500 Gig internal for the Intel Mini this way. (Smaller if your Mini is a G4 model.)

Aperture - library management and external HDD question

Hi all.
I have just graduated from a point and shoot to a Panasonic GH2 (love it), and have now begun using Aperture 3 rather than iPhoto on my early 2008 MB Pro to manage my photos going forwards. Of course, I’ve now discovered that Aperture is quite the resource hog and so it’s upgrade time (darn, “have” to buy a new ‘puter!). I have a 2011 MB Pro (2.3Ghz i7 with 512GB SSD) on order and 8GB of DDR 3 arriving from Crucial. Since I have this brand-new-computer opportunity I want to make sure I’m organising things properly before I start transferring things across, and so have a few Aperture-related questions. (In case it’s relevant, I’m shooting in RAW+JPEG. So far I’ve been using RAW as master, but have since learnt it might be a good idea to import JPG as master and switch to RAW only when I need to make corrections, so I’ll probably do that going forwards.)
I understand that moving to referenced masters on an external drive might be a good idea and save me precious SSD-space. To that end, questions are:
1. Can anyone recommend a companion external HDD for Aperture and the 2011 MBPro? I guess either FW800 or Thunderbolt are the way to go. The Lacie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt might be an option but is this overkill for Aperture masters or would FW800 be sufficient. I’ve also seen the G-Tech G-RAID mini, Lacie Rugged – thoughts welcome.
Key requirements are a) as compact as possible, and b) bus powered.
2. What kind of performance can I expect if I go down this route? Is there going to be significant loading/processing delay whenever I switch to a new image?
3. How will Aperture cope with (eg) syncing photos to iPad / iPhone if the drive containing the masters isn’t connected? Put another way, are JPG renders saved in the Aperture library (i.e. on my MBP SSD) or with the masters?
Thanks in advance to anyone who responds!
Aljrob

Aljrob_UK wrote:
...I have a 2011 MB Pro (2.3Ghz i7 with 512GB SSD) on order and 8GB of DDR 3 arriving
...I understand that moving to referenced masters on an external drive might be a good idea and save me precious SSD-space.
1. Can anyone recommend a companion external HDD for Aperture and the 2011 MBPro? I guess either FW800 or Thunderbolt are the way to go.
...Key requirements are a) as compact as possible, and b) bus powered.
OWC (an excellent vendor) has the Elite Pro Mini hard drive that meets your specs:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/EliteALmini/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
Thiunderbolt drives are not mainstream yet but eSATA and FW800 both work well. The multiple connection methods of OWC drives allow very desirable flexibility when purposing/repurposing drives.
Note too that the MBP optical drive can be replaced with up to a 1-TB hard drive DIY or OWC will do it for you. That is what I am doing with my 17" 2011 MBP.
2. Is there going to be significant loading/processing delay whenever I switch to a new image?
SSD latency is orders of magnitude less than hard drives. Switching to a new image even fast hard drives with fast connectivity add significant latency delay. To avoid that what I do is leave (Referenced) Masters on the SSD until all editing is complete (which may be a few weeks). Only then do I use Aperture to change the Referenced Masters location from the SSD to a large external drive.
What kind of performance can I expect if I go down this route?
With Masters on the SSD and 8 GB RAM imports/exports are very fast and all Aperture editing is essentially instant. You will be pleased!
Suggested workflow steps for Referenced Masters:
• Use a FW card reader or MBP slot to copy to a file folder on the SSD (never directly into Aperture or any other images management app). With fast camera cards copy times are quick, but cheap slow cards can slow this step down a lot.
• Eject and physically disconnect the card reader.
• Back up that file folder on external drive(s).
• Only after backup is complete, reformat the camera card in-camera.
• Import images into Aperture from the file folder on the SSD.
HTH
-Allen Wicks

External authentication question

Hello,
I am running an apex app in a secured environment. The authentication is handled by the environment, and a username passed to apex pages in a server variable, which I am able to use to set apex_application.g_user. Now, the user is only able to access apex pages via the security proxies, which make sure that the user is authenticated, etc. All page requests go through these security proxy servers.
Now, my question is this: I've set the g_user in a custom page sentry function. I don't know a whole lot about this stuff, and so just deleted all of the session-verification stuff from the function that I copied, and return true always. Because, I'm thinking, the security proxies take care of all that. Is that okay? Or should I set that value somewhere else, and leave things that I don't understand alone? If so, where?
Here's my page_sentry function:
create or replace FUNCTION custom_Page_Sentry_Func (p_htmldb_user VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'APEX_PUBLIC_USER' )RETURN BOOLEAN AS
l_authenticated_username VARCHAR2(256) := nvl(UPPER(OWA_UTIL.GET_CGI_ENV('HTTP_IV_USER')),'NOT_AF_AUTH');
IS_USER NUMBER := 0;
L_CURRENT_SID NUMBER;
BEGIN
--The server is behind the login system, so if the ApEx pages are shown, the login has succeeded (and we will find the cookie)
-- If logged in user is not a user (doesn't exists in USERS table)
-- THEN create a record in the table
SELECT COUNT(*)
INTO IS_USER
FROM USERS
WHERE USERNAME = l_authenticated_username ;
IF IS_USER = 0 THEN
INSERT INTO USERS (USERNAME,SSN) VALUES (l_authenticated_username,'111111111');
END IF;
apex_application.g_user := l_authenticated_username;
RETURN TRUE;
END custom_Page_Sentry_Func;
Thanks, -warren

I am setting g_user so that I can see auditing info in the DB, etc.
The database won't be aware of that value unless you set it into a context, e.g., by using dbms_session.set_identifier or some such device. You would pass v('APP_USER') into such a call that you could run as the VPD block of your application (edit application securiyt attributes to find that field).
But my apex "user" is APEX_PUBLIC_USER, same user for everyone. I'm not going to inadvertantly change that by calling the things that get called in the nmlt (or whatever it's called) page sentry function with my externally authenticated username, am I?
Correct.
Scott

KM Search and External Link Question

Q1: I have created a Meta Data Properties for a Folder, so any document Created in this folder will require these data to be entered, I want to put a Filter Option on the this folder Iview where user can filter data on the basis on Meta data Property or Search document based on Multiple Meta Data Property using TREX or any other search.
Q2. If I create a External link to a document in KM folder, will TREX search in that document.
Thanks in Advance
Jagraj Dhillon

Hi Jagraj,
Q1: You have to define the Meta Property as Indexable than you can use TREX for searching for documents with the specific value of this property. Of cause you can as well filter the documents when displaying the content of the folder. In this case you have to implement a resource list filter.
Q2: TREX is able to index links as well.
The question is it you really mean External Links for referencing documents in KM folders because normaly you do this by an internal link. A external link in most cases is a reference outside the portal. Nevertheless see http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/73/66c090acf611d5993700508b6b8b11/frameset.htm so you can see you can define a parameter indexContentOfExternalLink and you can define a parameter IndexInternalLinks. In this case the index will contain as well the content of the links.
Best Regards
Frank

Webaccess for External Entity questions

Hello,
- We are not able to logon to our external entities with webaccess (only with delegate option in the client)
- We have a password policy set to an edir object "login.policy", so this is for everyone.
on the password policy we've configured "periodic password change"=90 "require password"=yes /etc.
- We are authenticate to groupwise /edirectory with LDAP, so external entities should be use Groupwise password.
I have 2 questions:
- I want to disable the password policy "periodic password change" for this external entities.
Is it true that password policies are affected for external entities and if yes how can i exclude that, since i cannot assign a password policy to groupwise objects (only to users)
- I'm not able to login to the external entities with webaccess "mailbox not available" while i set manual the groupwise password in the external entity object. But i see that direct after that the password policy set the periodic password change to "current date/time"
How can i solve this, what's the best practice for this.
Thanks.

Hi,
We are using the latest one 8.02 HP2
hmm you don't have problems...
For information:
When i create an external entity:
Within consoleOne: select the postoffice > new > external entity
then i put in each field the same name as example : "mailaddress"
Then i have to browse for the object to place. There i place it in my Edir-tree under users/department/*
When i'm open the properties of the external entity and go to restrictions:
there everything is selected, so also "Force periodic password change", exactly the same as for our other users. (so that's the policy i think)
But when i deselect the "force periodic", it's good. But then when i say "change password", it's getting his password policy back from the server and there it is selected again.
But in the meantime i still cannot login with it.
I have 1 external entity that was working at a moment, don't know what i did. Ten times the same procedure. But also the password policy is there.
Is the structure the problem, where do you have the external entity object in your edir placed?
Originally Posted by kjhurni
What version of WebAccess do you have?
We use LDAP against eDir for our GroupWise system, and we also have "external entities" (as such, they're only in the GW system) and don't have any problems at all with the external entities logging in.
Obviously since the external entities are ONLY in GW, there is no NMAS Universal Password Policy that can apply to them, so I'm confused as to why an external entitity in your case would even be prompted every X days to change a password.

Time Machine w/ external HDD question

Hello all! Just started using Time Machine with an external HDD. So, here is my question, if my HDD (USB) is not attached for a week, and Time Machine is running, will I get some sort of error message letting me know that the backup volume cannot be found? Also, when I reattach, say one week later, will Time Machine pick up and backup those items over the past week? Please advise. Thanks!

Time machine might give you an error but its very unlikely. And as for unplugging the drive, yes time machine will pick up were it left off and update the changes you have made. I usually only hook mine up every couple weeks cause I don't make very many changes.

Two Part External Drive Question

I was using an Ext. HD on my Toshiba Satelite. The laptop went into a comatose hibernation and I could never get it to "wake Up". So I bought a new ASUS and it reads the External HD but some Folder ar written in GREEN text (others in black) The GREEN ones can be seen but not moved, viewed or anything. How do I get these files over to my new PC in a useable manor? I have played with the permissions and changed it to reflect my new name on new pc without luck.
Second question, my entire ols system is backed up on this Ext HD - Dont I need the original software that helped me back it up in order to restore it to a new laptop? This NEWB Will Appreciate All Responses. Rob Thanks You.

1. Since you don't tell us anything about your new machine, suffice it to say "take ownership" of the folders in question.
2. You didn't tell anything about the backup program either. But the answer is no doubt Yes, you need it to restore. You would want to boot from the disc (or thumb drive) you made to restore the whole system.
We are not telepathic.
-Jerry

External harddrive questions

I have a WD My Passport 320 GB for Mac and I just saved a 20 Gb folder to it. In addition, I deleted (command+backspace) a few older folders I had stored there.
The only thing left should be a 20 GB folder. However, when I select Get Info, it says:
Used 54 GB (should say 20)
Available 265 GB (should say about 300)
I have several questions about this:
1. Why does the file size not update?
2. How can I make it update? (Does it help if I Securely Empty the trash can?)
3. Does this mean that only 265 GB is available?
And followup... I went to Disk Utility to consider Erasing the external harddrive and selected Security Option 2: Zero Out Data. Then I went to Erase Free Space and got started but as it was going to take 5 hours I quit the application...
4. Would this be a good idea and exactly what should I select - have never used DU before...
There is Erase Free Space or just Erase... I can resave my folder again in needed, so I could delete all of it if that's better.
5. Which security option should I use?
6. Did I mess up my current folder by briefly getting it started, for 10s or so, and then quitting?
Any help most welcome!

If the files you trashed were on the WD external, then yes, it will have to be connected to the computer when you empty the Trash. Every drive has its own Trash folder on it, and that folder won't be emptied unless the drive containing it is connected to the computer when you choose the Empty Trash command.
Yes, you should run the Repair Disk command in Disk Utility before you empty the Trash. That will enable DU to make sure all the files on the external drive, including those in the Trash, are correctly identified and their locations on the disk are known accurately before anything is actually deleted from the drive's directory.
Don't erase the drive unless you want to lose the 20GB folder you just copied to it. And if you do want to erase the drive, don't bother with the Write Zeroes option unless you have unusual security requirements or you suspect the drive has hardware problems. The Write Zeroes command can also be run overnight if you do have a good reason for running it.

MBP (rev 1.1) external monitor question

I am thinking about buying an external monitor (in the 20-24 inch range) to hook to my first generation MBP. My eyes are tired of staring at the smaller screen for big projects and the extra real estate would be nice at home. Maybe a silly question, but just wanted to be sure the ATI Radeon 1600 (256megs of vram) has ample power to run a large LCD. I am assuming it shouldn't be a problem, but would be interested in input from others. Not a gamer so no worries there but, I want it to look good and still feel as responsive as it does with the built in screen.
Thanks for any input. Suggestions on a monitor are also welcome.

Your MBP (and mine) +"Simultaneously support full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on an external display."+
Meaning yes, you can drive a large monitor with no problem.

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