Shift + delete.

On Sep 29, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Justin Harford wrote:

How do you do that in windows? I don't ever remember having this functionality.

You can go into terminal and use the rm command.

rm file_name
rm -r directory_name

I am pretty sure that is what it is. You should be careful with that command when typing file paths because if you slip up you could delete important information.

Regards
Justin Harford

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John Milton
Paradise Lost

On Sep 29, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Randy Stegall wrote:

That's what I thought, Louie.

Randy
On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:01 AM, louie wrote:

Randy,
What I want to do is remove a file or folder with it not going to the trash. I know there is a way to do this in winblows.


On Sep 29, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Randy Stegall wrote:

Can you rephrase that?  I am confused.  Thanks.

Randy
On Sep 29, 2008, at 11:36 PM, louie wrote:

Hi how do you delete with out the file or folder showing up in the trash?

On Sep 29, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Randy Stegall wrote:

No problem, Olivia. When you think of it command shift backspace and the others mentioned are finder commands. I didn't think about that because the finder is always there. It is one of those things that just is.

Randy
On Sep 29, 2008, at 10:07 PM, UCLA Bruins Fan wrote:

ah, that might explain it. Thanks for shedding some light!


On Sep 29, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Randy Stegall wrote:

I found that I have to be either on the desktop or have a finder window open in order to make command shift backspace empty the trash. Sitting on the doc or within an application causes that shortcut not to work.

Hth,

Randy
On Sep 29, 2008, at 8:16 PM, UCLA Bruins Fan wrote:

I tried it, but it didn't work for me. I have just been emptying trash using the finder menu. Perhaps I don't have a backspace key on the macbook?

On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Matthew Elliff wrote:

oh wow i didn't even know that one existed and i've had a mac for over 2 years.
On Sep 29, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:

Hello Marty,

The easiest way to empty the trash is to press Command- Option-Shift-Backspace. You'll hear an emptying trash noise.

Cheers,

Anne
On Sep 29, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Marty Rimpau wrote:

Hi all, I'm posting to both lists, so I hope filters don't break, but here's something I received last night called apple soundtrack from a friend who helped me set up skype on the mac, and the youtube channel this came from is solomania9, and here's the url for the video, and if you want to hear the original source as it was uploaded, just add at
the end of the url
&fm=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAKXTvyYSfc
Now, for a question about dealing with the trash, and that is, that when I would try and delete the trash, using the following steps, go to the dock with vo-d, right arrow to the trash, and once there, down arrow to empty trash, and press enter, a dialog would come up, but it, apparently, would be hidden from me, because immediately, the computer would go into this busy mode, and I would lose speech with voice over, and I have a mac mini, so how does one empty the trash successfully with a mac mini? I couldn't find the okay buttons or any of the buttons in the dialog, and I don't know if it was because of that, when I shut down, my mac mini didn't shut down, or maybe it was trying to update, not sure, but I hit the power button, and held it in, until the computer shut off, re-started the machine, and shut down, and it did the same thing, and this time, I waited, and it shut down after about a couple or 3 minutes, but I wonder what I did, or what was going on to make it do that? The person who helped me with skype helped me with the trash, but I wonder if the mac mini's have a problem with the trash folder, or is this a weakness in the mac operating system? Thanks in advance, a loaded question, but hope somebody can help me out.

Marty
















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