[jtaylr77]

When dragging a file to the trash can a box pops up stating that the file will be deleted immediately. So my trash can never saved deleted files in it. I checked preferences and couldn't find anything that seemed to control this behavior. Any Ideas? Thanks.

[pat++]

Weird... Open Terminal and try this :

sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash

and see if it helps...

[holygoat]

How big is the file?

[proton]

This happens with files on network drives generally I've found.

- proton

[jtaylr77]

Originally posted by pat++:
Weird... Open Terminal and try this :

sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash

and see if it helps...

It gave me this

rm: illegal option -- ~
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file

The file size does not matter and these are files I have on my desktop and not from a network. Unless my trash thinks its on a network?

[pat++]

Originally posted by jtaylr77:
It gave me this

rm: illegal option -- ~
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
unlink file

The file size does not matter and these are files I have on my desktop and not from a network. Unless my trash thinks its on a network?

You didn't type in the correct command. There is a space between sudo and rm, a space between rm and -rf, and one between -rf and ~/.Trash

Copy/Paste the line to make sure you do not make any error when entering the command.
You should get no output at all... just the prompt of the shell.

[Big Mac]

Is there any possibility that your drive is full?

[pat++]

I managed to reproduce the problem... if you type the line above, it will create the problem. You then need to logoff/login and everything should go back to normal...