Mac OS X – Files won’t go in the Trash

Monday, July 7, 2008

By shazron

Most likely your Trash folder is not owned by you anymore. To fix:

Open Terminal.app, and type in the next 3 commands:
sudo chown <your_user_name>:staff ~/.Trash
sudo chmod 700 ~/.Trash
killall Finder

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One Response to “Mac OS X – Files won’t go in the Trash”

shazron

July 17, 2008 at 11:22 pm

Ok, perhaps these steps are really not needed. Try a “killall Finder” first before you do anything, and see if it fixes it.

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