For the nostalgic, a Trash icon can be placed on the desktop like the good old days of System 9 and before by using symbolic links.You can also “ Secure Empty Trash” on a one-off basis, or set it to be the default setting by changing the Advanced Finder preferences, found under the Finder menu.

You can turn off the Empty Trash sound effects on the Mac if you don’t find them useful.

Don’t want a file to be in the Trash, but can’t remember where it was originally? Use the “Put Back” feature to undo moving a file to Trash on Mac.

If you want to investigate a file in the Trash without moving it, you can use Quick Look to preview a file in the Trash

You probably know that you can’t open files from the Trash, but that doesn’t mean you can’t preview them.

You can delete a specific file from Trash without emptying the entire thing.

Shift+Option+Command+Delete will immediately force empty the Trash with no warnings, regardless of what’s in the Trash.

This is the safer approach since it brings up the warning dialog telling you the action is permanent.

Shift+Command+Delete will immediately empty the Trash.

You can also access this by right-clicking an item and choosing “Put Back”

Command+Delete with anything currently in the Trash selected returns it to the original location in the file system.

Command+Delete with any file or folder selected will send it instantly to the Trash in Mac OS XĢ: Return Items from Trash to Original Location.We’ll cover 4 handy keyboard shortcuts for the Mac Trash, and also review some other handy Trash tips… These keystrokes must have something in Finder selected in order to work, whether that’s a single file, a folder, or a whole group of documents.

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