The irony hurts. Today I was trying to copy an installer package from Trash to my USB stick. Why? - Because re-downloading the installer is taking too long. The problem was that the USB stick didn't have enough space. The solution was to empty Trash (on all volumes) to free up space on my USB stick so I can copy the file from ... ****. In a split-second decision I just emptied the Trash that I needed to copy the file from. :-(
Now, I know a lot of people will be like "don't keep things you need in Trash, blah blah blah" (and I don't). But sometimes it turns out that something you trashed is till useful and, well... this was a blunder. But nevertheless it is a blunder that called attention to a persistently frustrating limitation of OS X:
OS X still doesn't let us empty our Trash on a drive-by-drive basis.
So we are forced to either use Terminal to erase files (which is not generally the best idea), or just dump everything on all connected volumes (which today caused me to lose the file I wanted to copy).
Had I been presented with the option to choose which volume's Trash to empty, I certainly would not have emptied the local machine's Trash, and instead only emptied the Trash of the USB stick.
I will own up to the fact that, had I taken the extra two seconds to ponder it, I could have made the realization and copied the installer out of the local Trash before emptying. But, that's not really what this is about. It's about a feature that should exist but doesn't. My f-up today just shed a little extra light on it.
I am frustrated and feel the need to vent about this today. Am I expecting too much, or do others agree that it is time OS X offered a volume-specific Trash-emptying option?
Now, I know a lot of people will be like "don't keep things you need in Trash, blah blah blah" (and I don't). But sometimes it turns out that something you trashed is till useful and, well... this was a blunder. But nevertheless it is a blunder that called attention to a persistently frustrating limitation of OS X:
OS X still doesn't let us empty our Trash on a drive-by-drive basis.
So we are forced to either use Terminal to erase files (which is not generally the best idea), or just dump everything on all connected volumes (which today caused me to lose the file I wanted to copy).
Had I been presented with the option to choose which volume's Trash to empty, I certainly would not have emptied the local machine's Trash, and instead only emptied the Trash of the USB stick.
I will own up to the fact that, had I taken the extra two seconds to ponder it, I could have made the realization and copied the installer out of the local Trash before emptying. But, that's not really what this is about. It's about a feature that should exist but doesn't. My f-up today just shed a little extra light on it.
I am frustrated and feel the need to vent about this today. Am I expecting too much, or do others agree that it is time OS X offered a volume-specific Trash-emptying option?