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<header> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="os-x-trash-freedom.html"
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Wed 22 September 2010
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<p>I noticed today that i had 120GiB of data in my Mac's Trashcan. I
had enough. so I tried to kill it, and discovered a nice hidden
feature. rm -fr ~/.Trash ln -s /dev/null ~/.Trash</p>
<p>Now, when you delete a file in Finder, you get a nice pop-up
warning that the file will be permanently deleted.
<a class="reference external" href="http://media.kennethreitz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2010-09-22-at-3.44.33-PM.png">|image|</a>
Bliss. ### Update (Setember 25th, 2010): As it turns out, OS X
defaults to this behavior whenever ~/.Trash is unwritable as a
folder. If you were to place any file in ~/.Trash, you would see
the same behaviour. Oh well, it's still rather useful in function.</p>
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