4 years = way too many files...

This weekend I was having some technical issues with my much loved powerbook. It's been a great laptop, but it suddenly started "not" working. In doing all the self help stuff that I can, I noticed that a bunch of the memory is in use... We have a server (that I rarely use) so I figured I'd back everything up. After moving it all, then I could delete that stuff off the hard drive. Now I have almost 14,000 files in the trash...which is taking forever to dump. Oh the joy...