macOS Trash Problem

[melow71]

I recently typed a command I was told would help empty my trash bin but now it deletes every file I right click move to trash ?? The files never enter trash bin but simply get deleted and I don't know how to reverse this issue. Any help would be appreciated.

This is what I typed into terminal

sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash /Volumes/*/.Trashes

 

[jerwin]

Try logging out and then logging back in.

If you can't log out right now, you might also be able to get the proper behavior back by force quitting finder-- (it will, of course start right up again)

 

[KALLT]

The command will have deleted your Trash directories. Without them, files will be deleted immediately.

You should restore them with these commands:

mkdir -m go= ~/.Trash
chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/.Trash
sudo mkdir -m a=wx+t /.Trashes

For your external volumes (replace <volume> with the name of the volume):

sudo mkdir -m a=wx+t /Volumes/<volume>