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
>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>
>
> >


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