Rename the trash can in the Finder
May 26, '02 11:01:08AM
Contributed by: nockely
This is further to the hint which details how to rename the Trash in the Dock. This new hint as such 'localises' the Finder and renames the Trash to whatever you want. It may be most useful to pedantic British users, like myself, who have been lamenting the loss of the Wastesbasket since OS 9.
Read the rest of the article for the how-to...
Renaming the trash can:
- You need to have both QuickConvert and ResEdit and be reasonably comfortable with their use. Then either boot into OS 9 or log in as root.
- Find the file System/ Library/ Core Services/ Finder.app/ Contents/ Resources/ English.lproj/ Localized.rsrc
- Firstly back this file up, or the whole Finder if you like.
- Drop this file onto the QuickConvert icon, and then drop it onto ResEdit. The resource window will appear.
- Now open the MENU resource and double click on 128. Simply change the text of 'Trash' where it occurs to whatever you want it to be. This will change the name as it appears in the Finder menu (142 is the debug menu and is unnecessary to change).
- The main and most cumbersome part is now to open the STR# resource. Open the resources 4500, 5500, 5501, 5503, 5600, 5601, 5700, 6800, 6802, 6803, 6804 and 7500 alternately, seeking out instances of the word Trash and altering it to your chosen name.
- Save the file and be sure to drop it back onto QuickConvert.
Next time you log in there will be a nicely renamed Trash all over the system.
Obviously this hint is fairly time consuming but unlike previous Mac OS versions Apple tend not to update these Finder resources with every service release, so you don't have to repeat the process each time you update from, say, 10.1.3 to 10.1.4. My Wastebasket has remained as such from 10.1 to 10.1.4.
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