Rainman522

April 11, 2011 at 5:06pm

I use OneTrash that I downloaded for free from the Mac App Store. It adds another trash like looking icon to your Dock. From there, it gives you a list of all the files in your Trash that you can choose to delete. Unfortunately, you can only delete one file at a time from what I can tell. But it's a pretty useful tool in my opinion, especially since I just transitioned over from Windows to Mac OS X back in August. I still like the ability to pick and choose what I want to delete in the trash. Unfortunately for me, old habits are hard to change.

rosstaman

April 11, 2011 at 3:23pm

Like ifallen, I don't put anything in the trash that I still want, but I do like that option to recover later if something ends up in there by mistake. These days, most of the items in my trash are not there by my own doing, if you know what I mean - various utilities at work.

The main need I have is that I'll have a Flash or SD card that I want to empty. I should be able to delete the stuff on that without having to empty the trash for every other disk at the same time. I know about "rm" and might use that, but it seems Apple should recognize the need. I now have 6+ different devices at a given moment attached to my computer. The whole trash metaphor starts to become useless when you have to empty it all the time.

And, while upgrading trash, why not add the options like Mail has: delete things from the trash after they have been there a certain amount of time - like 2 weeks?

ifallen

April 11, 2011 at 12:59pm

I find this useful because I like to put things I *think* i don't need in the trash, but I like to wait around a week to delete them just in case, unless they are really large. For example, I had to drag everything out of the trash the other day accept for a game demo that was eating up a few gigs, just so I could delete the demo.