Automatically removing trash 5 days old

OK, found a solution to fixing this. To change the file modification date to the date added to the Trash:

From: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/7947/sort-trash-files-by-date-trashed

Go to the AppleScript Editor, past in the following script and save it in /Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts

on adding folder items tothis_folderafter receivingadded_items

repeat with this_item in added_items

do shell script "touch -m " & quoted form of POSIX path of this_item

end repeat

end adding folder items to

Then right click on any folder in Finder, go to Services and click Folder Actions Setup go to /Library/Scripts/Folder Actions and select Configure Folder Actions. Cancel the dialog asking which script to attach. Click the checkbox to Enable Folder Actions, then click the plus sign to choose the recycle bin folder. Click CMD+SHIFT+G ( ( or hold CMD+SHIFT+. ) and type in ~/.Trash, click ok and then click open. Now on the right side click the plus sign to choose the AppleScript that you saved earlier.

Note: I changed do shell script "find " & quoted formofPOSIX pathofthis_item & " -exec touch {} \\; to do shell script "touch -m " & quoted formofPOSIX pathofthis_item

use the srm terminal command for secure rm

Just realized that if a folder with files is trashed, then only the Folder will be touched.

So, the original script I linked was correct.

The correct script, that will touch recursively is:

on adding folder items tothis_folderafter receivingadded_items

repeat with this_item in added_items

do shell script "find " & quoted form of POSIX path of this_item & " -exec touch {} \\;"

end repeat

end adding folder items to

It seems, it's not a good idea to set the date deleted using Folder Actions.

The Folder Actions technology is not suitable for heavy payload.

If you'll try to delete many files, hunders at the time, this script will executed many and many times and will miss some files.

I tried to delete about 4000 small files, many files remained in Trash with old date, and I got unclosing "Deleting to Trash" small Finder window, so I was forced to relaunch Finder. Later in Console I found multiple records with "Folder Actions respawn in...sec".

Please, be careful.

I wonder if the folder action would have worked better if the 4000 or so files were first put into a folder/directory and then trashed. Would the Folder Action then have only 1 file to process?

After many days at Google (DuckDuckGo) I found an app that can solve this problem forever.

It's name is TrashTimer. You can download it here.

Works well, there is small trouble, when program starts, it shows the attention window, I can't avoid it, but everything else is OK.

Please test it and give your opinion.

TrashTimer

Tested and Approved!