Q: trash deletes files immediately

Another very easy solution, without terminal. Also about regaining rights for the trash.

go to your harddisk - select users, select your userfolder

open Info (cmd I, rightclick or whatever)

select sharing and pemrission: your user should have "read and write"

click on the lock bottom right (gonna ask you to unlock with your password)

if not already there, put read and write for your user

if yes or no (in my case, it was marked, but anyway faulty), in both cases select the gear = circle sign and click on "apply to all encolsed items".

In my case it worked

Taken from: http://www.fixkb.com/2012/09/mac-asking-for-password-when-moving-files-to-trash. html

this works!! thanks

Thanks Macjack, it worked and thank the lucky starts there are a few people out there like you to save our ***es!
Anyone noticing that Apple Mac OS has now become as unfriendly and unstable as MS Windows used to be?

I used to wave the flag for Apple's products....not any more. These kind of bugs didn't used to exist on a mac.

This is an older thread, but I am adding to it in case someone happens upon it. I recently encountered this issue and it was quickly fixed by a simple restart. May not always be the solution, but it's the first thing to try.

I know your post is from way back, but just wanted to say thanks a lot for this. After looking all over the place, your post solved my problem!

Thankyouthankyouthankyou macjack!  I have been searching for a week for something that would remedy this situation.  Your solution worked for me.  Yay!

I also used macjack's method and it worked like a charm! Thank you macjack!!! I've tried many forums and different methods and nothing worked. Yours was simple and it worked great! Thanks for being brilliant!

Thank you jsd2  !

Had the same problem and solved it with your suggestions

Thanks A Million! This totally worked!

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Thank you! Just used this method to fix this issue on Yosemite and it still works.

Had this problem tried everything.....

found a post on a linux forum that worked, mixed with a killall on Finder, please note {user_name} is the name of your user or home dir

sudo rm -rvf /Users/{user_name}/.Trash; killall Finder

following command works...

sudo rm -rvf /Users/{YOURHOME}/.Trash; killall Finder

Awesome!! Problem SOLVED. It was getting on my NERVES! Thanks!!!

Thank you