Can't use FreeFileSync to back up external hard drive in Linux

[FFSfan]

I bought a WD EasyStore 1 TB external hard drive to back up my Windows 10 and my Xubuntu (Linux) computers. I formatted the WD EasyStore to NTFS to accommodate FFS working on both computers. FFS works flawlessly on the Windows computer, and it works flawlessly when I back something up to a USB flash drive on the Xubuntu computer. But backing up to the WD EasyStore external hard drive to the Xubuntu computer is the problem. The first backup went well, but all subsequent backups create a tremendous amount of files in a folder named Trash 1000. Then gvfsd-trash spawner kicks in and utilizes 40% or so of the CPU availability and the WD EasyStore is frozen.

Any ideas? Thanks.

[bgstack15]

The way most current desktop environments (including Xfce, which is a defining feature of Xubuntu) handles the "recycle bin" behavior is to move any "deleted" files to a directory on the original filesystem (so same hard disk, basically), named .Trash-1000 (where 1000 is your uid). Sometimes the recycle bin can also use ~/.local/share/Trash directory. I'm not well-versed enough in how to change these, but there's probably a way described somewhere on the Internet.

So what this means is, on your hard disk (e.g., mounted as /run/media/1000/External_Harddisk_Name) there is now a directory /run/media/1000/External_Harddisk_Name/.Trash-1000 and that is storing all the old versions.

Perhaps in FreeFileSync you can configure the behavior to just completely delete files that are no longer supposed to be synced, and/or use some other option for Versioning than "recycle bin"?

[FFSfan]

Thank you very much for the reply. I'm going over it now and seeing if I can utilize it to solve the issue.