It would be nice to remove the trash icon from the dock, since we have auto delete

oliverfromoslo wrote:

Dialabrain there's an auto delete option in settings for trash after X days.

BobHarris, there's a directory called .trash in the root directory for the user. Easy to access.

Mere mortals will not know that. If Apple gave an option to hide the Trashcan, most users would forget they did it, panic after accidentally deleting a file.

And finding hidden files is not a typical mere mortal kind of activity.

Command-Shift-period is not well know to normal users, and then even knowing that a file called .Trash exists, per device, is a stretch for the typical Mac user.

Or using Finder -> Go -> Go to folder -> /.Trash is not common knowledge. Let alone /Volumes/some-volume-name/.Trash

And accessing via macOS Terminal is not an option for most users. I have lived in the terminal and command line environment for 50 years (i still get paid to work their), and trying to explain cd, ls, mv, etc… to a user that grew up in a GUI and touch screen world is not for the faint of heart 😳

You would be better off looking for a 3rd party app/utility that will remove/hide the Trashcan, then to get Apple to give you and option to make it go away.

Feel free to share your thought with Apple.

Feedback - macOS - Apple

You won't get a reply. If enough people share your thought with Apple they will no doubt consider it. Of course yours is the first post I've seen asking to remove the Trash from the Dock in 9 years or so. So doesn't seem to be an issue for most.

I understand your point. I never use the trash can either. But then again I also do not use the Dock, so my solution is to keep it permanently hidden. I also added a longer delay to prevent it from accidentally.

In the rarest cases where I want it, Command-Control-D toggles Dock visibility...

oliverfromoslo wrote:

Yes indeed, ah well, I guess we'll never get 'power' Mac features :-P

Power users that keep hoping Apple will give them all the customization abilities of Linux, generally just spend a lot of time being frustrated.

Apple is profitable because they develop their products for the Mom & Pop type user that does not know how computers work on the inside. Power users are not their target audience. Users, like those of us in this thread, are not getting extra knobs and switches to customize our Mac anyway we want them.

As it is, post Steve Jobs, we have obtained more knobs to tweak, but nothing that would make a Linux user happy.

NOTE: I do remember a 32-bit app from years ago that would hide the Trashcan, so it is technically possible. The 32-bit app never got ported to 64-bits, so that app is not an option, but maybe there is something on github that will do what you want.

oliverfromoslo wrote:

Dialabrain there's an auto delete option in settings for trash after X days.

Yes, there certainly is a Finder setting to empty the Trash after 30 days. Seeing I never have anything in the Trash for more than a few minutes, not what I would call "auto-delete".

How do you have “auto delete?”

Barney-15E wrote:

How do you have “auto delete?”

I have no idea what "auto delete" is either.

If no trash can, how do you pull things out of the trash, if they got accidentally deleted?

I have oodles of space and always have. Doesn't mean I want junk hanging around. I don't actually put anything in the Trash. I use command option delete. But, I'm not OCD about icons.

BobHarris wrote:

NOTE: I do remember a 32-bit app from years ago that would hide the Trashcan, so it is technically possible.

It was. Doesn't mean it still is.