[Tyler McAdams]

I'm getting a little tired of having to put everything in the trash can first and then emptying the trash.

Call me lazy but I'd love to have a "delete item" contextual menu on the right click menu. Anybody know of a way to do this?

[jmiddel]

I'd also rather do things as efficiently as possible, but I don't belive the OS allows what you want, for our safety. When you trash an item, you can still recover it in case of the big 'ooops', once deleted you need file recovery utlities tio retrieve it. Some will say that Apple is acting like a safety nanny here, personally I appreciate the concern, especially knowing some family members who would be doomed without it. Not everyone is as precise as some

[JKT]

You can do it through Automator, but it is very easy to inadvertently permanently remove the wrong thing(s) when doing this as it will remove the items with the highlight in the Finder and not the one you control-click to get the contextual menu.

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams 

I'd love to have a "delete item" contextual menu on the right click menu.

You'd love that only until the first time you delete something important by accident. The trash can is there for a reason.

[dice]

Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams 

I'm getting a little tired of having to put everything in the trash can first and then emptying the trash.

Call me lazy but I'd love to have a "delete item" contextual menu on the right click menu. Anybody know of a way to do this?

just hit command-delete on the selected files and they'll be sent to the trash, then empty the trash whenever you feel like it...

[philm]

Originally Posted by dice 

just hit command-delete on the selected files and they'll be sent to the trash, then empty the trash whenever you feel like it...

^^^
what dice said

[JKT]

Um, the OP probably knows that there is already a Move to Trash option in the contextual menu in the Finder so command-delete really doesn't add anything to the story. I suspect that what they do want is an out-and-out move to trash and delete in one (contextual menu) click option.

FWIW, the Automator action is available here but really do take a lot of care when you use it:

Automator World : Archive Delete Files

[Brass]

Originally Posted by JKT 

Um, the OP probably knows that there is already a Move to Trash option in the contextual menu in the Finder so command-delete really doesn't add anything to the story. I suspect that what they do want is an out-and-out move to trash and delete in one (contextual menu) click option.

FWIW, the Automator action is available here but really do take a lot of care when you use it:

Automator World : Archive Delete Files

Well, CMD-DELETE does improve things a bit when you also know about SHIFT-CMD-DELETE (empty trash). You can then do both very quickly one after the other. Not quite as good as a single action, but very close (at least when you have the trash warning dialogue disabled).

[Tyler McAdams]

Originally Posted by TETENAL 

You'd love that only until the first time you delete something important by accident. The trash can is there for a reason.

Not to sound like a geek but most things don't get past me. Or put differently, it it's going to get past me it going to get past me twice since I always empty the trash right after I put something in it.

With Gentoo I've got a kde "action" that lets me just delete whatever I right-click on. I like that.

I got the automator action and I'll check it out.

Thanks for the help!

[JKT]

As I said before, be extremely careful with it - Automator actions run on the items that are highlighted in the Finder, not the ones that you control-click (unless they both happen to be the same file, of course). It's caught me out a number of times when using an automator action to append the date to a file (where, instead the folder containing the file got renamed as it had the highlight)