I think that it has something to do with the syncing process. Even though the Google Drive app allows you to keep files locally, they are also synced with the web-interface. Probably a safety redundancy thing that Google wished to put in so that if things get accidentally deleted on one Google syncing machine, they are not permanently gone.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-10-02, at 3:00 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting. Who knew that deleting stuff locally would leave trash in my > cloud. > > CB > > On 10/2/13 4:52 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> Yes and no. That process will remove it from the Trash on your Mac but the >> items will remain in your Google Drive Trash on the web using up some of >> your available Google Drive space. The steps that I outlined in my previous >> post on this topic will remove the items from your Google Drive Trash up in >> the Cloud. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2013-10-02, at 8:53 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Isn't it the same as deleting any other files? Command-delete to toss the >>> selected file(s) to the trash and then command-shift-delete to empty the >>> trash. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 10/1/13 2:09 PM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: >>>> Hello everyone, >>>> >>>> Has anyone found a viable solution on how to delete trash from the google >>>> drive cloud service? >>>> Thanks for any help anyone can provide. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
