Uneraseable items in trash can

Hi,
I had some external hard disks connected to my Mac pro and I erased some files from those disks. The problem is that, after a few days, I had to format theese disks and I forgot to empty the trash can before formatting. Now those files in the trash can are uneraseable. I tried with Trash It! and with Clean My Mac but no luck. Is there any other way to do this?
Thank you,
Carlos

This has come up before, but I'll need to do some searching to see if there was a solution.
Basically, you have ghost aliases that point to a volume which no longer exists.
If you do 'get info' on them you'll find they're zero bytes, and so not actually taking up room on your drive, but of course they're still very annoying.
As a start, try renaming the erased drive to what it was previously and remounting it on the Mac. Try emptying the trash then.

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