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Empty the trash from any application via AppleScript
Authored by: leamanc on Sep 25, '09 12:59:29PM

I agree with a lot of the commenters here...this is just not necessary. The Trash's contextual menu in the Dock is plenty good for me, and always available in any app.

If you have to have an AppleScript to do this, there are a lot shorter scripts out there (see the three-liner above) that will do the trick, and can go in your Script Menu. You do have the Script Menu in your menubar, right? If not, you are missing out on some great stuff that is only a click away, and highly customizable.



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Empty the trash from any application via AppleScript
Authored by: David Allen on Sep 27, '09 07:32:11AM

Well, the Script menu is fine. Now can you tell him how to assign a keyboard shortcut to accomplish that script, which is what the post is about, a keyboard shortcut. Not a dropdown menu. Not a contextual menu. A keyboard shortcut.

We all use our Macs differently. Some folks are keyboard oriented. Others are mouse oriented.

For all you know he is blind and uses the keyboard for everything.

Often the criticism is just being pissy!

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David Austin Allen
Monterrey, NL, MX



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Empty the trash from any application via AppleScript
Authored by: Mac Berry on Sep 27, '09 09:54:58PM

I think you're right that the hint is specifically about adding a keyboard shortcut, but the hint title, and in fact the hint itself, doesn't say that, it's just implied.

The comments about being able to use the scripts or contextual menus are perfectly reasonable responses to the hint title and it's first sentence. The title suggests you can't empty the trash from any application, whereas in fact you can.

Anyway, even if you are keyboard centric, I personally think this hint is a little OTT, unless you have so little disk space that you need to empty the Trash every 5 minutes. If you do, or simply don't like to use the trash, what you really need is a Windows like option to permanently delete immediately.



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