OSX 10.8.3 Trash issue

[Liberty99]

Hi all,

Just got a new imac, OSX 10.8.3 and can't work out how to stop the trash from deleting everything as soon as it goes in. It's driving me crazy. Any suggestions?

Cheers

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello and welcome.

Just to clarify - when you send something to the Trash, it automatically deletes immediately? If so, does it give you any prompt window stating it will be deleted immediately?

C

 

[oldscribe]

Hi,

Are you by any chance holding down the option key while deleting a file,as this may empty the trash without the warning dialog.

 

[Liberty99]

Hi,

The message that comes up is that 'Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this'

And at the same time a Trash dialogue box comes up saying 'Moving the item to "Trash"'

I'm not holding the option key and the secure delete trash preference is not selected in Finder preferences.

I've been using macs for eons (since 1985) and haven't had this issue before.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's me or if I've got a glitch in this new OSX?

Cheers

T.

 

[Liberty99]

Hello and welcome.

Just to clarify - when you send something to the Trash, it automatically deletes immediately? If so, does it give you any prompt window stating it will be deleted immediately?

C

Hi Cory,

No other prompts, just the request for the administrator password and a small dialogue box telling me it's moving the item to the trash. It's just not working the way Trash usually works.

 

[Kaveman]

Does this persist after a restart?

These are not System files you are trashing? or from another User? or Across a network? Remote boot?

 

[Liberty99]

Does this persist after a restart?

These are not System files you are trashing? or from another User? or Across a network? Remote boot?

Hi Kaveman,

No the files are not system files, not from another user or across a network or remote boot.

To me it looks like something like I'm trying to trash files from another user, but there are no other users. It's got me stumped.

Maybe I goofed up something at the initial set up stage? But there wasn't a lot to mess up!

I turn on the computer and there is no login required, I'm the only user and I'm the administrator.

At this stage I'm contemplating using a work-around folder for my files to be trashed and only putting them in the trash when I'm ready to delete them. With any luck the next system update will fix the problem.

Cheers T

 

[Cory Cooper]

Try using Disk Utility to repair disk permissions, restart, and see if issue persists. If so, let us know.

C

 

[Liberty99]

Hi again,

Thanks for the advice about Disk Utility.
Interesting thing happened when I started the process. I wanted to back up a few small files onto USB memory stick, so plugged it in and decided to delete old files from it - Low and behold the trash for the memory stick is working fine.

Still have the same issue when trashing something from my hard drive, or user account.

Will let you now how I go with the disc permissions.

T.

 

[Liberty99]

Hi

The Disk utility repair disk permissions then restart didn't work - although there were heaps of permissions to be repaired!

Given that this trash issue isn't a major problem (and hopefully isn't indicative of another major issue lying in wait further down track) I figure I'll use my work around until the next system upgrade.

It's going to bug me, but I'll live with it. Maybe I'll have a tinker around with new users or set up a new admin account and see if that does the same thing.

Thanks for all your help. If anyone comes up with any solutions, I'll be monitoring the forum.

Cheers for now.

T.

 

[Liberty99]

Just another update,

I set up another user account and when I login as that user the trash works as normal.

I must have done something wrong when I set up my original administrator account. Don't know what. Any suggestions?
Cheers

T.

 

[pwfletcher]

I had a problem where I couldn't delete a movie file for weeks. Eventually found a terminal command that fixed it. Try googling terminal commands for your trash problem ;-)

 

[Liberty99]

Thanks for that, I'll look into it.

In the mean time I'm using the new Admin account I set up and all the buggy bits have sorted out. I haven't yet deleted the old admin account with the Trash issue, so i can go back and check it out. Although I suspect I've set up that user account in the wrong place somehow so when I try deleting trash, the computer thinks I'm not the right user to delete that particular trash. Perhaps I've stumbled upon an alternative universe inside my Mac! (ooops too much Dr Who, better go have a nice cuppa and a lie down.)

Thanks again for you suggestion. I'll have a look at that.

Cheers

T.

 

[Walrus666]

Hello,
Sorry so late. The terminal command was probably either chmod 700 .Trash/ or sudo chmod 700 .Trash/
The second command requires a password that you may have to type more than once (Perhaps twice). However, if the first command works, (which it should) you won't need the second command. Either command should fix your Trash privileges.