[Velda]

I KNOW ive seen this somewhere, but ive spent nearly an hour searching the net and i cant find it anywhere.

I just want a trash bin at the end of my finder window's side bar. It cant be that hard can it?

Once i have that i can ditch the dock for good

[chabig]

There are "tricks" that come close to what you want. But foregoing those, there are 2 workarounds that I know of:

1. Use the keyboard. Select the item and press the command key and the delete key and the item is put in the Trash. No dragging. Then to empty the Trash just use command/shift/delete.

2. Put a Delete button in your Finder window toolbar. (View > Customize Toolbar... or simply right click on the toolbar).

Chris

[monkeybrain]

Hey Velda, I've never thought of doing this, but just had a play and can find a way to do what you want.

1. Open the Trash window.

2. File>Get Info (command-i) on the Trash folder (don't select any of its contents).

3. In the Get Info window expand the 'Preview' section.

4. Drag that huge Trash icon into the sidebar of a Finder window, it will stay in there and you can drag stuff to it to send them to the trash!

The only downside is that you can't empty the Trash from the sidebar, it seems the Finder just considers it a normal folder there. But you can use that shortcut chabig gave above, or use the menu command in the Finder menu.

[Velda]

well, thats a quick way to crash finder for me or some reason.

[OreoCookie]

In Leopard, there will apparently be an empty button in the Trash's Finder window.

[monkeybrain]

Really? That's odd it would crash it. I've found that the Trash folder doesn't stay in my sidebar after a restart anyway, so not so useful.

I found this: SideTrash 1.1 - MacUpdate

But I read that if you delete an alias with it, it will delete the actual file, so be careful.

[seanc]

Originally Posted by monkeybrain

Hey Velda, I've never thought of doing this, but just had a play and can find a way to do what you want.

1. Open the Trash window.

2. File>Get Info (command-i) on the Trash folder (don't select any of its contents).

3. In the Get Info window expand the 'Preview' section.

4. Drag that huge Trash icon into the sidebar of a Finder window, it will stay in there and you can drag stuff to it to send them to the trash!

The only downside is that you can't empty the Trash from the sidebar, it seems the Finder just considers it a normal folder there. But you can use that shortcut chabig gave above, or use the menu command in the Finder menu.

Crashes my Finder too.

[stefanicotine]

Originally Posted by monkeybrain

I found this: SideTrash 1.1 - MacUpdate

Cool app, too bad it isn't Universal.

[P]

Tragging the Trash icon to the sidebar crashes my Finder as well. If you're happy with just deleting stuff on the startup disc, you can do that without a hack. In the Finder, select Go -> Go to Folder... and type ~/.Trash. This will bring up the actual trash folder, which you can drag to the sidebar as you wish (use the proxy icon in the title bar). No trash icon though, but you can fix that by doing a copy-paste from the real trash icon.