How do you actually DELETE stuff on OSX...?
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I was but I had nothing in my trash can to empty!
However, this is not what the OP wants. The OP would like to delete stuff without going into the trash can i.e. delete forever in one command.
Not quite, I want to be able to delete to the trash can but then when the drive is full for the stuff in the trash to be automatically overwritten. On windows you delete stuff, it goes into the recycle bin, where you can restore if needed (as OSX), however when you run out of space on the drive files overwrite the oldest files in the recycle bin, meaning no need to have to actually ever need to empty the recycle bin, especially useful on USB sticks and removable drives.
It may be a culture change but it's a backwards one IMO. It's the sort of thing MS sorted out in windows 95 yet Apple still haven't got a grasp on for some reason. For example I guess there is no way of just deleting the trash on a particular drive? Which the windows way sorts out.
That's not what I am after... You don't NEED to right click the recycle bin, you only go to it if you need to restore something.
(Didn't realise this thread was still going until today!
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Oynx
A must have app on Mac OS X, I always seem to end up with hundreds of items in the trash and when I try to empty it, it will literally take hours if not days to delete. Oynx manges to do it instantly.
OT but any other must have OSX apps? New user here
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Any way to get the trash can on the desktop ? I have the dock hidden and its a pain to have to drag and wait a bit when deleting things, I just want a desktop icon
Soldato
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Not that I know of. Just do cmd & backspace
If you want to limit the size of the trash can a la windows, go have a look here
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20061022114138978
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20061022114138978
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