Trash talkin' OS X

June 3, 2007 8:27 AM

OS Xperts: 2 questions related to the trashcan (OS X v. 10.4.9) 1. The trashcan left my finder sidebar. I can find a .trash file to drag over, but its not the same as the original sidebar trashcan. How can I restore the trash to the sidebar? 2. OS X religiously creates trashcan folders for every storage device. On USB keys, this is more trouble than its worth, and causes me to have to empty the entire trashcan to free up space on a USB key I just supposedly deleted everything on. I can't find a Pref panel setting or .plist file that affects file deletion behavior. How can this property (and all trash properties) be modified?
posted by Fupped Duck to computers & internet (6 comments total)

By "sidebar," do you mean the Dock?
posted by tcv at 8:46 AM on June 3, 2007

nope, I'm referring to the sidebar in Finder.
posted by Fupped Duck at 8:59 AM on June 3, 2007

There's never been an official way to have the Trash in your Finder sidebar. You must have added it yourself at some point in the past. Dragging the .trash folder from your Home folder into the sidebar is the closest you're going to get, although, as you say, it doesn't work perfectly.
posted by chrismear at 9:17 AM on June 3, 2007

" target="_self">AskTUAW has the answer to your first question...
posted by horsemuth at 9:23 AM on June 3, 2007

Let's try this again. AskTUAW
posted by horsemuth at 9:29 AM on June 3, 2007

Handy trick - if you create a file called .Trash on a USB stick (or other volume) you will get the immediate deletion warning. Go here for details.
posted by O9scar at 11:06 AM on June 3, 2007 [1 favorite]