Hello; when i go into my finder window, i press control-option-m twice. that brings up a menu. where it says finder, i arrow down and it will say epty trash and then secure empty trash. just press enter on the empty trash. I hope that helps. good luck, Max On Sep 14, 2009, at 5:51 PM, anouk radix wrote:
> > hello, here command shift backpace (which i assume is delete, i have a > laptop) does secure empty trash and i cant find out a way to do the > normal variation. > Greetings, Anouk > On Sep 15, 2009, at 12:44 AM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: > >> >> Hello in lepard its command-shift-delete for normal empty trash. and >> yes secure empty delete does take a long time mainly because it is >> reallocating the drive space as it goes kind of like emptying the >> trash and then restarting your computer in windows. Hope i'm right, >> and hope that helps. good luck, Max >> On Sep 14, 2009, at 5:40 PM, anouk radix wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, in windows i can empty my trash rather quickly, in mac os x i >>> can >>> only find how to secure empty trash which takes HOURS AND HOURS and >>> is >>> very annoying. Can I physically go to the trash fodler and remove >>> stuff from there without secure emptying because this is taking >>> hours. >>> Greetings, Anouk >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---