How to get trash folder in finder?

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and provide ~/.Trash as the path. For the Trash on other drives, open them in the Finder and provide .Trashes/501 as the path; the number may vary, but will always be the same for a given Mac OS X user account.

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After you use goto, you can go to File > Add to Sidebar and have "Trash" there. You can't get the icon though this way

Isn't it in your Dock? I don't think you can move Trash to the Sidebar (I could be wrong)?

Clinton

Thanks for that tip. Trash should be in Finder just on principle. It's where you typically put things in the trash and from where you empty the trash. Sometimes in doing those things, you want to inspect the trash. Having it in the Dock is non-intuitive.

AGREE! Took me ages to find the trash bin today - then spotted ClintonfromBirmingham's post (above) - thanks also to Clinton!

Hello Neil,

Here's a challenging adjunct to the physical location of trash question above. I moved home folder of my login to a different partition (data only) which all worked fine. Then I trashed the original home folder which was on the Boot OSX partition (just to be tidy as it was not needed any longer) now the MBA says "cannot logon to this user for the time being". So I clearly need to return the original home directory back from trash to my logon folder (eve though it is not really used).

However, how can I access my original logon user directory in trash when I am unable to logon? Logged on to the root directory and using your go to folder solution above I have found the trash for root but I am unable to find the trash for my actual logon (which contains the trashed home directory)!

Any thoughts sir? Thanks for your help.

pn