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Mac OS X - Files won't go in the Trash

Jul 07, 2008
1 minute

Most likely your Trash folder is not owned by you anymore. To fix:

  1. Open Terminal.app, and type in the next 3 commands:
  2. sudo chown <your_user_name>:staff ~/.Trash
  3. sudo chmod 700 ~/.Trash
  4. killall Finder