Trash deletes items when I drag them there. How can I fix this?

Perhaps one of those harder to find when or if you need it,

such as this; may be found by sifting through details in a

System Preference item.

You'd be looking to see if a Check Box had been chosen

to 'Automatically Remove items in Trash' (or to that effect.)

Not sure when I'd last seen that choice box; never did

engage it, since I prefer to know when that empties .

Although I tried to search the idea, several old extinct browser

bookmarks came up; some originally had referenced this topic.

But now do nothing except show the page cannot be reached.

The feature is a system wide one, likely in System Preferences.

Or an Apple menu bar item. By now someone may've found it.

You may see what the 'Finder' preferences shows.

Mine has checkboxes, among those one suggests:

Is the drive in question a Network Drive or a shared drive?