Safe way to 'bin' images from my hard drive

I've found that 193GB of images stored in my hard drive needs to be removed for good (these images are on my separate hard drive), my question is how do I now safely remove these images from my hard drive? - and where are they?
Thanks
Message was edited by: welshgold

welshgold wrote:
and where are they?
On your hard drive I would presume... If you mean you don't know where on the hard drive, then I would suggest making a smart folder for your hard drive that only includes images. Then drag the files in this folder to the trash. Then, with the hard drive still connected, empty the trash. If you want these to never be recovered again, choose the finder option in the menu bar and choose secure empty trash.
193GB is a lot of data. It will take a good while to create the smart folder and even longer to secure empty trash. A standard empty shouldn't take to long.
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