Deleted objects suddenly not going into Trash.

A strange new Trash behaviour has started occuring. I'm not sure if it's related to a Terminal command I used yesterday which was


Which I used to empty the Trash. Anyway what is happening now is that when I select an object and use the Cmd Delete key combo, instead of moving items to the trash like it always did, I am now getting a dialog box telling me that the item will be deleted immediately and then it is deleted without going into the Trash, just as if I used the 'sudo rm -R ~/.trash' command on it.

Oh, I see, I didn't mean to delete the trash folder, I thought I was just emptying the trash. I can't remember where I got that command from.

Anyhow, how do I tell where the trash folder is supposed to be so I can recreate it in the right place?

Thanks WildPalms, I'll add that command to my list of Terminal Commands.

I remembered that I had a back up volume so I booted into that to see where the Trash folder was supposed to be, but when I restarted normally everything was working again so I must assume that the .Trash folder was automatically recreated.

<note to self: remember to learn how to use Terminal commands>

OK, that will be excellent.

Just for the record. I did an experiment and used the rm trash command again then checked that it had reverted to it's previous behaviour bypassing the Trash, which it did.

Then I used the mkdir command and made a .trash folder in my home directory, which it did because when I did it a second time it said that one already existed there.

However that did not restore the correct Trash behaviour. ie items I deleted still bypassed the trash. Although a restart restored everything again.

So I'm still trying to understand what has happened. I know that I did removed the Trash folder and I know I did restore the Trash folder but restoring it wasn't enough to stop the Trash bypassing thing.

Yeah, thanks for that. I already learned my lesson the hard way when I was deleting system 9 from my HD and accidentally deleted the system folder. But these days I keep a complete bootable clone of my HD up to date.