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Delete File From Trash in OS X

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Is it really not possible to delete a file from the trash in Mac OS X, aside from the "Empty Trash" action which deletes ALL its files?

Posted by Anthony on Aug 30, 2007 at 04:26am
Filed under: Apple, Stupidity

Comments:

01. Aug 31, 2007 at 11:27am by Kev:

Yes, I think that’s correct. With my limited experience on my wife’s iMac, I remembered thinking along the same lines as your post.

A more-trouble-than-it’s-worth work-around would be to move everything that you do not want to permanently delete out of the Trash to a regular temporary folder, empty the Trash, then move those files from the temp folder back in.

Alternatively, you may be able to do it from the command-line in the Terminal application.

Good luck!

02. Aug 31, 2007 at 09:34pm by Anthony:

Yeah, I ended up using the terminal.  It just makes no sense for there not to be a way to do it through the GUI.

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