Dragging items to trash with mac book pro

[mybydee1]

Hi, I hope this question is not too pedestrian, however I am a mac newbie, I got a mac mini in sept, and just purchased a new macbook pro. my question is how do you drag items to the trash in Pro, and then how do you empty it? I know the question seems banal ,so I apologize

thanks,
Rob

 

[jnc]

Drag the item you want to delete, and drop to the trash icon in the dock. From there, right click the trash icon and select Empty Trash.

You can also send an item to the trash by the keyboard combination Command + backspace

 

[plinden]

Do you mean with the trackpad? It's just select/hold button/drag/drop. Since you have a new MBP, you have Leopard, so when you click to open Trash you can click on the Empty button. Or you can control click to get the context menu. Or set up the trackpad so two fingers plus button act as right click.

What I've done though is customize my Finder toolbar (View/Customize Toolbar) and dragged the delete icon to the toolbar, so I can delete any file I've selected without drag - I also added New Folder and Connect.

 

[mybydee1]

thanks for your replies

thanks folks! it was very helpful,
Rob

 

[dstein]

command sift delete empties the trash...you can bypass the warning message in the finder prefs