No sending to bin...I've found some nonsense about pressing option, shift, command, delete, sacrifice a hundred wolves on a blood moon to steve jobs - but I just want to delete some files. I've spent the best part of the afternoon waiting for a 5gb file to empty out of the trahs can! This is rubbish!
Is there any way of just deleting files on macOS?
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I'm trying that, it's sending it to the trash.
Are you pressing the right keys? Cause CMD, Option, Backspace is what I use to delete immediately. I get an "Are you sure?" box popping up to confirm immediate deletion
Are you using the delete key instead of backspace?
I think i'm doing that? But it's been telling me that it's been deleting three files for about 15 minutes now.
I WAS making that mistake and getting frustrated. lol
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Another option, open terminal and use the 'linux/unix' rm command to delete files (doesn't send it to the 'bin'/'trash can').
Oh that works? sweet. I'll do that.
Using the command line on macOS is well worth learning. You can do so much with it in a short amount of time.
I think i'll probably end up doing that while i'm refmailiarising myself with linux anyway - I've completely *** if you must swear, please fully star out the word, not just a part of it, thank you *** windows, and it's made me more active in learning than I have been in years.
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I am a newbie to mac as of 18 months and do a lot in bash. The GUI still feels weird to me coming from windows