I just "updated" my MBA from Lion to Mountain Lion. Imagine my surprise whenever I try to move a file to the trash, I'm told it will be immediately deleted! I can't find a setting to make it like it was in Lion, i.e. stay in the trash until I decide to delete it. Where is the trash action setting?
Click on the item in the Finder's sidebar with the house icon and verify that you are able to write to this folder in the Sharing & Permissions section of the Get Info window, and that it isn't locked; if it is already set this way and you get that error, choose Utilities from the Finder's Go menu, open the AppleScript Editor, and run the following:
do shell script "mkdir ~/.Trash"
If you get a message stating that the folder exists, run the following:
set theUID to (do shell script "echo $UID")
do shell script "chown " & theUID & " ~/.Trash" with administrator privileges
do shell script "chmod u+rwx ~/.Trash"
tell application "Finder" to quit
delay 2
tell application "Finder" to run
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May not work for you, but when this happened to me all it needed was a restart.
OK, the Get Info for my~ folder says I can only "Read" even though I am the administrator; only "user" has "Read & Write" permission. Itried the AppleScript Editor procedure and was told:
AppleScript Error
sh: mkdir~/.Trash: No such file or directory
I just tried again and this time the error message reads: mkdir: /Users/dbswaney2/.Trash: Permission denied
I am the only account on the machine and my account is the Admin account.
So what next?
You need to put a space between mkdir and ~. Copy and paste the script instead of retyping it.
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That is what I did with the second attempt.
Solved the problem by doing the standard troubleshooting action of wiping the drive and doing a fresh install.
Moving file to trash immediately deletes it
