On 30/10/2007, Mike Beattie <m...@ethernal.org> wrote: > Thanks OS X. > > For absolutely no reason that I can discern at all, it will not > actually empty the trash when I select "Empty Trash" from the Finder > menu, or the right click menu of the trashcan itself, or the shift- > fuckingabnormaltwirlything-delete hotkey.
OS X HATE BANDWAGON! Whenever you remove a USB flash drive, you have to "eject" it first (the word in itself is a stupid historical legacy, like buttons labelled "rewind"). This is done by dragging the disk icon to the trash. They reworked almost everything and yet managed to leave in this particular bit of historical stupidity that dates from the Mac Stone Age (see http://www.mackido.com/Interface/TrashingDisks.html). Alternatively you can click its icon and hit Cmd-E. Fair enough. If you don't eject the drive before pulling it, you get a dialog box waving its finger at you telling you to eject the drive next time. When I eject flash drives, their icons disappear. Then I remove them. Then it brings up the same fucking dialog box telling me to eject first. Every time. I _DID_ EJECT IT, YOU SOURED DRIBBLE RESIDUE FROM A WIZENED WITCH'S TIT! -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/
