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Trash is deleted immediately

Hi all,

after installing new CS5 and plugins I noticed today that whenever I like to trash ANY files, the following warning appears: *Are you sure you want to delete the item? It will be deleted Immediately*. If I click continue the file is deleted, and the trash icon is empty.

I was searching in the discussions and found the following thread:

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html

I was checking in the file info of the finder and I'm listed as the administrator with read & write permission. There are no other users set up.

I was opening the terminal and here I don't no anymore what to do, without being afraid of doing any major mistakes.
I also don't know how to find the symbol on the keyboard what to type in there.

By the way I noticed in the finders preferences, that "delete the trash safely" was unchecked.
After checking it the behavior was the same.

I hope someone can help me, since I'm living an air travel far away from any next Apple Center.

Thanks

Mac Pro 2.93 Quad-Core, 8 GB Memory, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 3x1 TB internal HD, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 12, 2010 8:34 AM

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Oct 12, 2010 9:48 AM in response to mogli365

Choose your Home folder "Get Info" (command-i) and be sure you have "read & write" in the Sharing & Permissions section. Check under "General" section to be sure it isn't locked. If that is correct, launch Applications/Utilities/Terminal and at the prompt copy & paste this command…
mkdir ~/.Trash
If you get a message that the folder already exists, copy & paste these commands...
sudo chown $UID ~/.Trash
Press return
Enter your admin password (it will be invisible)
Press return
chmod u+rwx ~/.Trash
Press return. Log out and back in, or restart.

Oct 12, 2010 10:29 AM in response to mogli365

macjack's post was exactly what I was going to suggest.

In addition, you should always have a spare admin account. Sometimes user accounts get borked and you can't log in to them. Should this happen to you without a spare admin account, you could find yourself locked out of your computer.

A second admin account also allows you to run your primary account as a non-admin. When logged in to an admin account, every program you run, everything you do, runs with admin rights. Handing over admin rights to programs that don't need it (web browsers for example) is an unnecessary security risk. Apple recommends using against browsing websites or reading e-mail from an admin account.

Trash is deleted immediately

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