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Deleting a single file from the trash in Mac OS X Snow Leopard

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Mar 15, 20265793 views
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Problem

In earlier versions of Mac OS X one could delete a file from the trash by opening a terminal window and typing . See this previous post. Unlike earlier versions in Mac OS X Snow Leopard one can "put back" a file from the trash into its original directory. Will the trick still work? Testing shows it…

Error Output

rm ~/.Trash/file_i_want_to_delete

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Fix for: Deleting a single file from the trash in Mac OS X Snow Leopard

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Mac OS X isn't updating the resource fork: If you create a testfile on the desktop (plain text file), , check if the file has a resource fork by going into the terminal and executing: This lists the size of the textfile and secondly the size of the …

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