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ChrisMACosx

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Original poster
Aug 23, 2007
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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?????????
:mad::mad::confused::confused:
 
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
 
Always restart before posting an issue like this - it solves this problem...
 
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