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Authored by: hombre on Jul 18, '02 07:43:38PM

If you use SNAX's delete command (rather than move to trash), then you won't have to empty it. The SNAX delete command appears to be an execution of the unix command rm, while "secure delete" appears to be rm -P. Alternatively, you can move a file to the trash, and then later delete it from the trash, which will not call the finder. Bear in mind that when you click on the trash icon in the SNAX toolbar, you only get a look at .Trash, whereas the Finder's trash view will also show you the stuff in the various .Trashes. BTW, I found it convenient to remap the SNAX delete command to cmd-forward-delete, and I edited the delete dialog pane so that <return> invokes <normal delete> while <esc> cancels, just in case you are, like me, lazy, and willing to live dangerously.

I have tried the various replace-the-finder methods, but they have not proved very useful because 1) command-clicking a dock item does not reveal the item in SNAX (although launchbar performs the task nicely), and 2) contextual-menu items like zinggg don't work. If anyone has figured these out, I would love to hear of it.



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