Add the trash to the Finder toolbar in 10.2

Aug 29, '02 06:24:55AM

Contributed by: Loren

In 10.1, I was able to add the trash can to the Finder's toolbar by opening up the trash and clicking and dragging the icon from the window title bar to the toolbar (see this hint if you're still on 10.1). This no longer works in Jaguar, as far as I can tell. Fortunately, I still have a 10.1 system at my disposal, so I was able to use it to find another way.

Open up the following file in a text editor:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

Add the following section to it, before the </array> line that is five lines from the bottom:

  <dict>
<key>item-id</key>
<string>TCAN</string>
</dict>
This will add the trashcan to the end of your toolbar.

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