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    Deleting items from external drives

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by hoolyproductions, Aug 11, 2007.

  1. hoolyproductions

    hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist

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    I have noticed that when I delete items from an external drive (USB flash, USB hard drive), the space is not freed from the drive until I then go and empty my trashcan.

    Is there any way to avoid this behaviour? It seems strange and not particularly helpful...
     
    hoolyproductions, Aug 11, 2007
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  2. bravesdave

    bravesdave Notebook Guru

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    shift + del
     
    bravesdave, Aug 11, 2007
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    hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist

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    i just selected a file on an external drive and pressed shift + del and nothing happened???
     
    hoolyproductions, Aug 11, 2007
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    bravesdave Notebook Guru

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    it should come up with a box that's almost like the normal delete...
    it just bypasses the recycle bin

    if that doesn't work or you don't want to go through the trouble of clicking shift than you can go to your desktop and right click the recycle bin and open its properties...there's tabs for each of the hard drives you have running and you can choose whether or not to use the recycle bin for any of them.
     
    bravesdave, Aug 11, 2007
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  5. bravesdave

    bravesdave Notebook Guru

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    oh and make sure you check "configure drives independently" under the global tab.
     
    bravesdave, Aug 11, 2007
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    hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist

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    Er I don't have a recycle bin on my desktop... are you talking about Windows by any chance? :)
     
    hoolyproductions, Aug 11, 2007
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    bravesdave Notebook Guru

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    oh crap
    hahaha
    i'm stupid.. thought this was in the windows forum
     
    bravesdave, Aug 11, 2007
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    I think Microsoft has one up on Apple here. "Recycle Bin" sounds so much more politically correct and environmentally friendly than "Trash".
     
    taelrak, Aug 11, 2007
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  9. bravesdave

    bravesdave Notebook Guru

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    how about.....
    "garbage disposal"

    sounds pretty elegant to me
    for when mac osx puma or windows coloria come out
     
    bravesdave, Aug 11, 2007
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  10. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    "Black hole" :D

    Hey, fits the Time Machine theme :p.
     
    Sam, Aug 11, 2007
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    bravesdave Notebook Guru

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    wow
    you can't get things out of a black hole or a garbage disposal...
    they just eat things up =D lota help that does

    they're all about getting their themes down nowadays
     
    bravesdave, Aug 11, 2007
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  12. Paul

    Paul Mom! Hot Pockets! NBR Reviewer

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    AFAIK, this is just the way UNIX-based systems handle external drives and deleting. You'll have the same issue on flash-based drives; I do on all my flash drives in Linux.
     
    Paul, Aug 11, 2007
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  13. hoolyproductions

    hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist

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    ok, not the end of the world, thanks :)
     
    hoolyproductions, Aug 12, 2007
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