Lacie hard drive, how do I view the files in Finder so I can delete some backups?

My LaCie hard drive is full so I need to delete some backups but although the disk is mounted in Finder I cannot see the backup files to delete any. How do I do this please?
Thanks Brian

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Buy another backup drive. Keep this as is. depends on what and how you do backups. TimeMachine? there are program utilities to help manage but it is 'suppose' to manage itself (have 3.5x capacity of data you backup helps). You didn't say what type of backup method was used.
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