Elements of external hard drives automatically put in the trash

Hello everyone.

Something strange has happened recently on my iMac (OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 version): I am a photographer and use several portable hard drives to back up my photos.  I hung 4 to my Mac while I'm typing this.  When they are attached and active, some of the articles on these portable drives are automatically put in the trash.  I'm very good on empty the trash and the last time I went empty, he said I had over 3 million items to remove.  I knew that something was wrong and through some trial and error, I figured out that if I ejected portable hard drives, the basket showed empty.

No idea why things of my portable hard drives are automatically put in the trash and if yes, how can I change this?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Tony

FWIW, there is no mechanism for a reader automatically put anything in the trash. Therefore related software. For example once a Mach time backup drive is full, it will remove older backups to make room for the new.

The discs in question are come with preinstalled software?

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