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Remove Trash From Dock?
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Simple enough question. Is there a way to remove the trash from the dock in OSX.
Need to for our students - as we are getting tired of them throwing things away they should not.
dawho9
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Originally posted by dawho9:
Simple enough question. Is there a way to remove the trash from the dock in OSX.
Need to for our students - as we are getting tired of them throwing things away they should not.
dawho9
Are you sure you want this to happen?
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Originally posted by dawho9:
Simple enough question. Is there a way to remove the trash from the dock in OSX.
Need to for our students - as we are getting tired of them throwing things away they should not.
dawho9
What are they throwing away? If it is files that you need to keep, change the permissions on them so that they can't be deleted by anyone without knowing the correct password.
If it is applications, create a different account that has limited capabilities to block installation and removal of apps.
Etc.
Even if you could remove the icon from the Dock, this wouldn't remove the ability to delete files...
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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The computers in question are used in a lab environment. So they have a general usename called: Student
The students use these computers for everything from Word to iMovie. The problem we are having is that some students delete the hard work of other students iMovie projects.
We are not interested in creating different accounts for each student on the machine (over 1000 students in the school - and any one of them could be on the machine at any given time).
Our thought is that if the trash can was gone - we could still send trash to it (open apple - delete) and then still empty the trash.
Or wrose case - we log in as Admin and delete it then.
Just looking for a solution to our little problem.
dw9
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Join Date: May 2002
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1000.. well.. Hmm.. Did Apple have that in mind when creating OS X?
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even if the trash can was removed... Apple key + delete send the files to the trash can ...
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Here is what I did. I used Tinkertool to show invisable files. In tinkertool I selected show hidden files. Relaunched Finder. Went to the users home directory and did get info on .Trash. From there I went to ownership and permissions and changed all of them to no access. Now the trash is locked.
I'm sure there is a terminal command to easily do and undo this. I just don't know what it is. Anybody?
(Last edited by MPC; Feb 8, 2003 at 05:25 AM.
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I can hear the goose-steps getting closer.
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Originally posted by Jasoco:
1000.. well.. Hmm.. Did Apple have that in mind when creating OS X?
Yes, it's called Mac OS X Server and Workgroup Manager.
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Originally posted by MPC:
Here is what I did. I used Tinkertool to show invisable files. In tinkertool I selected show hidden files. Relaunched Finder. Went to the users home directory and did get info on .Trash. From there I went to ownership and permissions and changed all of them to no access. Now the trash is locked.
I'm sure there is a terminal command to easily do and undo this.
You bet. 
% chmod ugo-w ~/.Trash
and to undo:
% chmod ugo+w ~/.Trash
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally posted by dawho9:
The computers in question are used in a lab environment. So they have a general usename called: Student
The students use these computers for everything from Word to iMovie. The problem we are having is that some students delete the hard work of other students iMovie projects.
We are not interested in creating different accounts for each student on the machine (over 1000 students in the school - and any one of them could be on the machine at any given time).
Our thought is that if the trash can was gone - we could still send trash to it (open apple - delete) and then still empty the trash.
Or wrose case - we log in as Admin and delete it then.
Just looking for a solution to our little problem.
dw9
work around may be to replace the trash can icon with another icon, like a folder or harddrive to fool the kids. But ultimately, you may want to lock it as mentioned above.
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