After upgrading to 10.1, I could no longer move anything to the trash: I got a message that the items would be deleted immediately.
[Editor's note: Make sure you're in your home directory first if you haven't just launched the Terminal -- type cd and hit enter, then execute the above command.]
After a couple of days messing around, I solved the problem. The owner of my home folder (/Users/myname) was root; regaining ownership via this command in the terminal:
sudo chown myname mynameReplace 'myname' with your short user name. This changed things back to normal.
[Editor's note: Make sure you're in your home directory first if you haven't just launched the Terminal -- type cd and hit enter, then execute the above command.]
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