![]() ![]() It seems to work as predicted for me so far though. I don't know much about shell commands, and some of the previous posters warned of the danger of using rm -rf, which is something I have done in the script. With the item selected in Finder, shift del will run the script, which displays a dialog warning of the permanent deletion of the item with its name. I came up with the following applescript, which I bound to shift del with Keyboard Maestro, so it now works as in windows. So, what's your way of getting around this? Have you bought a 3rd party application like RAW Trash for $16.95 just to delete files, or do you diligently empty the trashcan whenever needed? Or did I miss something? Also, can you convince me that this is actually the way it should be - that users shouldn't be able to fiddle with the filesystem easily? :) There might be gigabytes of stuff in there, and this sort of defeats its purpose - what if you'd actually need to restore something from the trash some day.) Not particularly convenient! (It seems stupid to have to empty the whole trashcan just to make some space on the USB stick. ![]() I noticed this when trying clear up files from a USB memory stick - removing the files ("move to trash") does not free up space that happens only after emptying the whole system-wide Trash. On Windows and Linux this can obviously be done with ease, but not so on the Mac. After completing the procedure, the software will be completely removed from the system. Here are the steps: Locate the files and 'Ctrl + click' on them. Directly, that is, without moving them to the trash first. macos - Disable the Command-Backspace 'Move to trash' keyboard shortcut - Super User Disable the Command-Backspace 'Move to trash' keyboard shortcut Asked 12 years, 7 months ago Modified 7 years, 3 months ago Viewed 8k times 9 I use Preview to view PDF files (duh) and sometimes annotate them as well as search them profusely. To completely remove MS Office from Mac the last piece of the puzzle is removing the shortcuts from Mac Dock. A while back, as relatively new Mac OS X user, I was surprised to learn that you cannot easily delete files. ![]()
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