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Only 'til the trash is emptied!
Authored by: tomem on Jan 28, '02 01:10:45PM

These methods work until you empty your trash, at which point .Trash is deleted and the alias loses its link and has to be recreated. So it's a great idea if you never empty your trash...

Drag Thing adds a trash icon that survives... Wonder if that can be accomplished without adding a floating pallette?



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Only 'til the trash is emptied!
Authored by: jlowrey on Jan 28, '02 09:44:45PM

Trash X can do this.

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Only 'til the trash is emptied!
Authored by: toddsnc on Jan 30, '02 06:30:23AM

in a word, Yes. You can use Dragthing to put trash back on the desktop without having a palette. It's trash doesn't have all the features of the dock's trash; ie it doesn't morph into an eject button or scissors, and it sometimes gives weird messages when you drag a network drive to it to disconnect it. But ...

the trash-on-desktop only works with *registered* versions of DragThing.



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RE: Only 'til the trash is emptied!
Authored by: glowurm on Jun 01, '03 02:50:34PM

Just a quick note about persistence of the method described in the hint: I've followed the directions *exactly* and tested with a silly old file, and the alias remains linked to the directory: [ ~/.Trash ]

I was unable to tell which method the above posts were discussing, whether it be the system link or the alias method so I thought it might be of some help to future readers to know that one of them was persistent.

By the way, I'm not sure if the system version or hardware have anything to do with this, so specs follow.

Snow iMac 500MHz G3
Mac OS X v10.2.6
Build 6L60

Hope this clears some of the mud more perceptual readers may have found inexistent.



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