help! fast! (Terminal/ Trash)

[ChrisMACosx]

probably not a leopard specific problem but heres my problem

today when i was emptying the trash on of the files wouldn't delete because it said it was in use.. so i went to terminal and did rm -rf ~/.Trash/ and then the trash was empty but then when i went to move something to the trash the message came up "The item "PLACEITEMNAMEHERE" will be deleted immediately" then it gave the options okay or cancel, but i don't want my items to be deleted on the spot.. why did this happen?????????

 

[xUKHCx]

It happened because you deleted the Trash folder and all of its contents rather than just the contents

to solve it do this in terminal

mkdir ~/.Trash/
killall Finder

 

[psychofreak]

Always restart before posting an issue like this - it solves this problem...

 

[ChrisMACosx]

thanks guys..

 

[xUKHCx]

thanks guys..

perhaps be more careful next time you flex the Terminal power.