The Mac Support page says that, to uninstall non apple apps you drag it to the trash, but that does not work. Any other answers?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012)
Tried to drag to trash can and doesn't work, tried to force quit via activity monitor and it does not delete
Mac Book Pro 15" Late 2011
2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Software OS X 10.9.3 (13D65)
this seems like a really simple thing i want to do but i cant seem to figure it out. All i'm trying to do is put a shortcut of the trash can onto the desktop. I have my dock hidden and it can be a pain to try and make it appear to delete something. i searched spotlight for trash and there are no hits. i try to drag the trashcan from the dock and nothing happens. There has to be a solution???
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MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), Windows 7
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MacBoo Pro, iOS 7.1
Since reinstalling my Lion, the Trash has been strange. I can't just drag stuff there without getting a dialogue box telling me it will be deleted immediately. That requires me to click my agreement. Same thing happens if I right-click my mouse and choose the Trash option. So my Trash basket stays empty, and I go through a two-step process with every file or program I want to be rid of.
iMac with OS 10.7.4
For the last couple of days, I haven't been able to drag any files over from my Stacks to the Trash; nothing happens. I'm forced to open the folder and drag it over from there or Apple+Delete it. I *might* have accidentally deleted a file (I don't remember which) causing this to suddenly happen and haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. It's more of an annoyance than anything else.
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Here's the problem: I click on the files (one or multiple) and try to drag them to another location. They won't drag. I've tried several times.
But if it "Open in Finder" and then I can drag to trash...
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iPad 2, iOS 4.3.2
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iMac 27 in 2.8 GHZ i7, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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Mac mini
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if i drug the file from the library to the trash, you would here the trash can "eating sound" and it would be gone from the library (one step). if it was from a playlist, it would delete that file from the playlist but not from the library as expected. now, i cant do either. now i have to right click and delete the file/s and then click move to trash.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I went to install a typical Mac OS update using software updater only this time when it completed my click-drag and copy-paste functions stopped working. Can anyone help solve this? Here is what I have tried.
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Mac Pro (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.2), Have installed 10.7.3
when i need to empty trash it dosen't work i don't know
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I'd like to empty my trash, but it doesn't work anymore. The trash icon in my dock indicates that there are files in it, but when I click on it the Trash window appears, but the files don't show. The indicator at the bottom right just keeps on animating - it never stops, not even after several hours. furthermore, the "Empty Trash" option in the Finder menu is grayed out. The "Empty Trash" option in the trash icon's right-click menu is not grayed out. However, when I click it, a dialog appears for confirmation; I click on "Empty Trash" and nothing happens. When I list the files in my trash using the terminal (with the "ls" command), the files do show (and there is a considerable number of files). When I try to remove them, using the "rm" command, nothing happens; when I list the files again, they are still there. What must I do to get this mess fixed?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
So over the past few months I have noticed this small bug/glitch in iTunes... and it is very annoying.
I cannot drag songs from playlists into different order. iTunes just doesn't let me drag at all.
I have to quit iTunes, then restart it. It will work for one time, but as soon as I got back to "Library" and then try to go back and edit a playlist, I have to exit iTunes.
Any fix for this?
I have two folders in my trash which I cannot empty. No matter how many times I try these folders will not go away. I have open the "info" link and marked them read and write without success.
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iMac
when i turn on my mac trash has recovered files in there, however trash was empty of last shut down.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display
