Hi Randy,
You do know about the Command-Z "undo" command under Finder, don't
you? This is under the "Edit" menu of Finder's menu bar (VO-Shift-M
then press "E" to go to the Edit menu and arrow down. If this entry
is not dimmed, it will tell you what action Command-Z will undo -- for
example, if you moved a file to the trash, and can still recover, it
will say "Undo move file <your filename>". Obviously this will not be
possible if you emptied your trash.
If you want to use Justin's method of using the "rm" command in
Terminal to delete files, you can set this to "rm -i" and you will be
asked to confirm each file deletion. (I think you need a command like:
alias rm "rm -i").
Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 30, 2008, at 4:04 AM, Randy Stegall wrote:
I usually don't either but there have been times that I have
accidentally put something in the trash that I wanted to recover. I
like your approach though.
Randy
On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Justin Harford wrote:
I think there is some other delimiter you can put with the rm
command so that it asks you if you are sure.
Otherwise what I do is just cd to the directory containing the item
that I want to rm. That way I don't have to risk slipping the
enter key when I am typing a file path in the rm command. I think
that makes it rather safe.
Otherwise, it's not like it takes that long to press cmd delete,
and then cmd shift option delete. Takes me about 1.5 seconds.
But, I never have anything in my trash that i want to save.
Regards
Justin Harford
Into this wild abyss, the weary fiend stood on the brink of hell
and looked awhile, pondering his voyage
John Milton
Paradise Lost
On Sep 29, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Randy Stegall wrote:
Justin,
That's why I stay from the rm command.
Randy
On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:27 AM, 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
Into this wild abyss, the weary fiend stood on the brink of hell
and looked awhile, pondering his voyage
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
louie
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