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Why does emptying the trash in Snow Leopard take so long?
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Mar 15, 202612182 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used to under 10.5. I just emptied about 100 files (totaling 50 megs / all local files), and it was about 20 minutes. It feels like its doing a secure delete, but I'm just using the "Empty Trash" option (cl…
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Fix for: Why does emptying the trash in Snow Leopard take so long?
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Go to Finder » Preferences, and in the Advanced tab uncheck Empty Trash Securely. The default did not change for me, but for some unknown reason it did change for some people.
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