where is Trash folder in Mac ?

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where is Trash folder in Mac ?

I can only see "Move to Trash" ;

but there is no way to see what is inside the "recycle bin".

MacBook

Posted on Aug 15, 2019 11:16 PM

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infinitychristian Author

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Aug 15, 2019 11:55 PM in response to dialabrain

yes its invisible ;

I found this somewhere which help :

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and provide ~/.Trash as the path. For the Trash on other drives, open them in the Finder and provide .Trashes/501 as the path; the number may vary, but will always be the same for a given Mac OS X user account.

(67967)

After you use goto, you can go to File > Add to Sidebar and have "Trash" there. You can't get the icon though this way.

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All is well but when I close and open Finder this "Trash" folder in my sidebar change to "?"

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Answer 2

Ptaxey

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Aug 15, 2019 11:22 PM in response to infinitychristian

You shouldn't be able to delete the Trash folder from your Dock. To put it back, you may reset your Dock settings:

Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)
Run the following command to delete the Dock preferences file:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist

Log out and back in.

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Answer 3

Ptaxey

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Aug 15, 2019 11:21 PM in response to infinitychristian

Usually Trash icon is located in your dock (right side).

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dialabrain

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Aug 16, 2019 12:22 AM in response to infinitychristian

FWIW, If your question is how do I add the Trash icon to the sidebar, you can't.

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dialabrain

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Aug 15, 2019 11:20 PM in response to infinitychristian

If you click on the Trash icon in the Dock it will open the Trash Folder. The folder is located at…

~/.Trash

It's normally invisible so you would need to press "command shift ." to see it.

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Lexiepex

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Aug 15, 2019 11:59 PM in response to infinitychristian

The Ptaxey recommendation should work.

Or:

apple->ForceQuit->Finder to reset to "normal".

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