Voice Memos File management with wireless remote hard drive

Dragging unwanted voice memos from within iTunes application to trash, then emptying trash, won't delete voice memos in the "voice memos" folder in iTunes Media on my external remote hard drive. Why not?
I manage my iTunes music from my laptop, storing the actual files in an iTunes Media folder on a hard drive connected to an Airport Extreme. The hard drive was close to full and I decided the culprit was giant voice memo files. I didn't need most of them so I dragged them to the trash from within the voice memos "playlist" in iTunes. This removed them from the playlist, but even when I emptied the trash via the Finder pull down menu, the files stayed in the actual folder on the hard disk. Disk still full. What gives?

Hi Samboni98, and a warm welcome to the forum!
You could do that, but a far better idea would be to clone the 160 to the 500, then boot from the 500 which besides beimg faster, OSX just loves lots of Free space.
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
After cloning bootup with the Option key held down & choose the 500!

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