preview "move to trash" grayed out

Brand new MacBookPro 15" (non-retina) arrived 05-Dec-2012. Fully patched.

Move to Trash grayed out. Nothing on the title bar saying "Locked". I can delete these files from Finder.

What the heck?

i'm having the exact same problem with 10.7.5 lion after upgrading from 10.6 snow leopard.

but those same users could accidentally delete files from the preview sidebar or from the finder. what i really don't undersatand is why they consistently remove functionality with every OS upgrade (since the days of OS9 Legacy) and don't at least add preferences to include that functionality as an option for those people who want it.

I just want to add my support to shape's points, about the disabling of the 'move to trash' on a single Preview document, and the dumbing down of the OS generally.

We have 5 Macs here, and are frustrated to experience the incremental dumbing down of various features. The seemingly small change may seem trivial to designers updating OSX, but the power to delete from within Preview was a productivity feature, obviously part of the workflow of a lot of users.

This sort of thing makes me worry about the future of the OS, which used to empower its users rather than forcing them to re-learn, slow down, or look for workarounds on each successive upgrade.

Hi,

I came up with (fasten you seat belts), this solution:

speed reading: an apple script application that deletes what has been drag n dropped on it.

You drag the icon visible in the preview window title to this app from your Dock to delete the current document.

How-to:

1) In Applications -> Utilities, open the AppleScript Editor App and paste the following code:

Click on File -> Export

Choose "Application" as file format and save it wherever you want (in your Application Folder for example).

Give it a name that make sense to you (could be Drag n Drop Delete.app)

At this point you could set a nice icon for the app.

Google something like "mac trash empty icns" and choose something you like.

Then do a CMD-I on the app and replace the standard icon on the top left corner with the one you have chosen.

2) Create a shortcut of this Application in your Dock.

So just drag and drop the application to your Dock, at the place you want it.

3) Drag the icon visible in the preview window title of the document you want to move to the trash to this app from your Dock.

In pictures:

I drag this icon from Preview.app (you have to be precise with the mouse ^^):

To the Applescript application that I've put in the dock (the back Trash with the red point on top)

And my file has been moved to the trash.

Final step is I close the corresponding Preview window.

Okay, this is not quite elegant but it works.

I can finally delete files directly from Preview.

I hope it helps.

take care,

val

Hi

I tried this and I get: "The operation can’t be completed because the item “xxx.JPG” is in use.", wich is normal because the file is open in Preview

Please don´t laugh but it works if it is like this:

(When you select a few image files in a folder and then open them in Preview and use the method "euhm" describes to delete individual images)

on open thisfile

tell application "Preview"

quit

end tell

beep

beep

tell application "Finder"

delete file thisfile

end tell

beep

beep

tell application "Finder"

open selection using application file id "com.apple.Preview"

end tell

tell application "Finder"

open selection using application file id "com.apple.Preview"

end tell

end open

The beeps are for giving time for commands to finish

I don´t know why but the last command has to be repeated for it to work.

(This script selects the file to be deleted, then closes the application and deletes the file and then reopens the application with the remaining selected files.)

This is annoying and slow but it works on my system. (10.7.5)

I am sure that the beeps can be replaced with something less annoying

On second thought you may laugh all you need