Password on trash?

[NewEyesOpen]

This hasn't happened to me before, but this evening every time I want to move something into the trash, it asks for my account password.

How can I disable this?

 

[angelwatt]

Could be a permissions issue that got out of whack. Head to Disk Utility and run the verify/repair permissions to see if it helps.

 

[NewEyesOpen]

Could be a permissions issue that got out of whack. Head to Disk Utility and run the verify/repair permissions to see if it helps.

Thanks. I just finished running that and it said the disk was okay.

 

[angelwatt]

How long has this been going on? Install anything recently? Have you tried a reboot?

If that doesn't resolve it, type in the following command into Terminal and post the results here.

ls -la | grep ".Trash/"

(That's a lowercase L at the start and after the -.)

For comparison, my output looks like,

drwx------   2 angelwatt  staff    68B Aug  9 18:34 .Trash/

 

[NewEyesOpen]

How long has this been going on? Install anything recently? Have you tried a reboot?

If that doesn't resolve it, type in the following command into Terminal and post the results here.

ls -la | grep ".Trash/"

(That's a lowercase L at the start and after the -.)

For comparison, my output looks like,

drwx------   2 angelwatt  staff    68B Aug  9 18:34 .Trash/

thanks, I'll try a reboot first and see what happens after that.