[tomdavidson69]

ARGH!! Whilst messing around with get info and trying to add the trash to the side bar I renamed it ~/trash (i.e. without the '.')...

Now it won't empty.....:-(

How can i change it back to ~/.trash (and so get my much-missed-trash-emptying-powers back??)

Cheers in advance!

iMac FP 17'' 800, 768mb, Panther...

[LaGow]

Fire up Terminal and type the following:

sudo mv Trash .Trash

then hit return. Type in your normal user password and all should be well. Alternatively you could delete the directory by typing

sudo rm Trash

and OS X will recreate the directory.

[edit] You could try both these commands without them being preceeded by sudo, since they're in your home directory. But if the file won't delete, putting sudo in there will temporarily give you the root-level access needed to delete it.

Hope this helps.

[tomdavidson69]

Originally posted by LaGow:
Fire up Terminal and type the following:

sudo mv Trash .Trash

then hit return. Type in your normal user password and all should be well. Alternatively you could delete the directory by typing

sudo rm Trash

and OS X will recreate the directory.

[edit] You could try both these commands without them being preceeded by sudo, since they're in your home directory. But if the file won't delete, putting sudo in there will temporarily give you the root-level access needed to delete it.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the help, it seems to have worked! I now have nice empty trash!!

[LaGow]

You are quite welcome.

It's always nice to hear something worked!

Andy