OS X :: Permanently Deleting File / Shift-Delete Function
Apr 15, 2007is there any way in Mac Os X to have the Shift-Delete function that you have in Windows to permanently delete a file without having it sent to the Trash first?
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OS X :: How To Delete Individual File / Folder Permanently
Apr 18, 2009I ripped a few movies from my personal DVD collection onto my MBP to watch on the road during a recent business trip. When I got home, I went to delete them by putting them in the trash. It worked, or so I thought. The folders containing the movie disappeared from my desktop, but the 6 or 7 gigs of space that they took up were still on my HD (I have the status readout below my HD icon on my desktop and it was unchanged after I trashed the movie). After some research I learned that trashing the file doesn't actually take it off the HD, that I'd have to empty my trash bin to get rid of it permanently. But like many of you, I don't want to completely empty my trash. Is there a way to permanently get rid of individual files/folders? I saw a few ideas. I saw a program called permanent eraser. I also saw where someone suggested using Terminal and some rf commands.
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Jan 22, 2009When you open the Finder window and to the bottom left hand side it shows:
Search For:
Yesterday
Today
Past Week
All Images
All Video
All documents
I was wondering if you delete all the files from these will that delete the file as a whole. Are these just shortcuts showing you what has been looked through etc.?
Applications :: ITunes No Longer Deleting A Music File From My Mac When I Delete From Library?
Dec 17, 2009When I used to delete a song from my iTunes library it would ask me if I wanted to also remove it completely from my computer. Now it no longer does and I cannot find a option to get that back. Can someone tell me where I can get iTunes to do this again?
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Jun 27, 2012When setting up my MacBook Pro I somehow made the right shift key function as a hotkey for the show desktop function. Now I can't figure out how to return it to being a shift key.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X :: Deleting From Hard Drive Permanently?
Jun 1, 2009How do you delete applications from your Mac harddrive? I downloaded Yahoo messenger on accident and I dont want it on there.
View 3 Replies View RelatedApplications :: Permanently Deleting Songs In ITunes
Apr 19, 2010Can this ONLY be down via the Library? That's the only time I ever find myself clicking on it, is to delete songs. Is there any way at all for me to delete through the play list through an addon, script, etc?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSoftware :: Items Permanently Deleting When Dragged To Trash After 10.6.2
Dec 16, 2009Now when I drag things to the trash a message comes up telling me if I want to delete the file(s), they will be permanently delete. I don't no what happened but I used to be able to drag the file into the trash and empty the trash whenever I wanted.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIntel Mac :: Permanently Deleting Time Machine Back Ups?
Apr 8, 2012I've got a 2011 iMac 21" running on Lion. I've been backing up using Time Machine since september, and now need to delete from september-march. i've placed these into the trash and have attempted removing them, but when it says items to delete (normally a positive number) it goes into negative eg. -14,923. It isn't allowing me to place them back in the Backups.backupdb folder, and it will not remove them, so they're in the trash folder and can't be removed. i've attempted the sudo rm rf trash command, but terminal isn't allowing it. So if I want to completely remove this backup, is there a command or a process that i can use?Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Deleting Files No Longer Sends To Trash But Deletes Permanently With 'cannot Undo' Warning?
May 19, 2012For some reason, now when I delete or try to drag files/folders to trash, I get warning message 'This item will be deleted immediately. You can't undo this action.' And the files do NOT go into trash. Same if I CMD delete. I noticed this when I emptied the Aperture trash, got a warning something about permissions and cannot empty some files. They disappeared from Aperture, but the referenced master files were still in the original folder on my HD.(So I relocated the masters I was keeping, then deleted the remaining, they did not go into the trash but were permanently deleted). I don't recall changing any settings!I checked in Finder > Preferences > Advanced > 'Empty trash securely' is NOT selected.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X :: How Do You Permanently Delete All Information On A OS
Jan 1, 2007My sister has a Mac OS 9. She is thinking about getting a newer computer and is wondering how she would go about making sure that any and all info on the computer is destroyed.
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Feb 7, 2012How can I delete an app I don't want anymore ever again? I delete it and move to trash and it still shows up when I'm in the AppStore under purchases?
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iPhone 4S
OS X :: Delete Only Certain Files Permanently From Trash Bin?
Feb 19, 2009I'm a recent mac converter. Hope someone can help me out.
Now in XP I was able to remove certain files from the trash bin. I never actually emptied the entire trash bin, but once in a while would delete the oldest files from the trash bin and keep the new ones.
Is this possible in OS X? I was only able to empty the entire trash bin, but not certain parts of it.
OS X :: Skip Trash Bin And Delete Permanently
Aug 16, 2010I recently reset the boot thingy, (with shift-control-r-p) and repaired disk permissions. now if I delete something it will ask "are you sure you want to delete XXX, this item will be deleted immediately, you cant undo this action"
google this and it seems more ppl are wanting this feature but I dont, how do I get it back my normal trash bin? I tried in Finder's preferences, didnt work.
ITunes :: Delete A Song Permanently?
Feb 26, 2012I am in some sort of weird loop and cannot actually delete songs I purchased from the iTunes store.Â
1. I purchased the song on my iPhone
2. It automatically got downloaded to my iTunes on my Mac
3. I decided I don't want the song - I hit delete - it asks me to confirm if I want to delete from iCloud as well - I say yes - it asks me if I want to move the file to the trash - I say yes - and it temporarily disappears
4. Next time I sync my phone, it shows up again. No way to delete it directly from phone.Â
What's strange is shouldn't it delete it on my phone since I'm deleting it from iTunes before I sync?
I am scared to buy new songs now as I don't want to be stuck with them forever in case I don't like them..
MacBook Pro :: How To Permanently Delete Mail
Mar 14, 2012I have a MacBook Pro with OS X.... I use Mail for my emails. how to perminantly the delete the email in my trash and computer. I keep trying to empty the trash, but, it keeps showing back up.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
ITunes :: How To Delete Apple ID Permanently
Apr 30, 2012delete or disable permantly my Apple ID or iTunes ID like Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo.
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Apple ID
ITunes :: Permanently Delete A Purchase?
May 26, 2012How do I permanently delete a purchase?
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MacBook Pro
App Store :: Delete An App Permanently From Account?
May 30, 2012how do I delete an app permanently from my account?
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Jun 14, 2012Having real problems with mac and space, how do I delete mailboxes
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
ICloud :: Can't Permanently Delete Me.com Messages
Jun 29, 2012I just updated to iCloud/Lion and now I can't permanently delete any of my me.com messages. This only happens in the iCloud mailbox. I can permanently delete messages from all of my other email accounts. I will delete a message in the iCloud mailbox and when I go to my inbox, the message is back. I checked my preferences and I have "Move deleted message to the Trash mailbox" selected and "Store deleted messages on the server" not selected.Â
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iMac (24-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
MacBook Pro :: How To Delete Tags Permanently
Sep 7, 2014how do i delete tags permanently in my mac
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Sep 28, 2009I need to return company Macbook Air and I want to be sure all my private data are permanently deleted and unrecoverable. I know it is not enough to simply delete them, so please, can someone suggest a more secure way? Should I format my Air and if so, how can I do it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWay To Permanently Delete Unwanted Apps From ITunes
Apr 3, 2012I've downloaded 100 Apps since getting my iPhone. Of which, only 70 I've enabled to be sync'd to my iPhone. If updates are available for the other 30, iTunes downloads them even though I am not sync'ing them to my iPhone. Is there a way to permanently delete these unwanted Apps from my iTunes so that I am not spending time getting updates to Apps I am no longer intersted in?
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Apr 16, 2012For some reason the minus sign is greyed out to delete account.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
MacBook Pro :: Permanently Delete Photo In Iphoto?
May 25, 2012I have to get a pic off of my computer and out of my cloud --- permanently (old pic of an ex - haha). I selected the photo and a yellow outline of the photo appeared. I clicked DELETE and it disappeared from my iPhoto library. But when I was streaming photos to my tv over Apple TV the picture came up - even though I deleted it.
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iPhoto '11, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X Mavericks :: How To Permanently Delete A Contact From IMessage
Jun 4, 2014I have an Iphone and Mac Air, using the same account on both. I have deleted a contact from my list however whenever I type in the name in the 'TO' line of Imessage on Mac is there altough is deleted from the contacts from both Iphone and Mac. the contact has not been used recently. Last time when I texted it was 4 months ago
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
OS X Mavericks :: How To Permanently Delete IMessages On IMac
Jun 1, 2014You can delete the conversation from iMessages on the iMac, but when the person messages you again, the entire previous discussion populates.
I believe this acts differently on the iPad and the iPhone.
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iMac, iOS 7.1.1
MacBook Pro :: How To Delete Serial Ports Permanently
Aug 23, 2014I have an issue that is affecting both my MBP and iMac. I believe it is due to a Blackberry mobile phone but not entirely sure.Â
In the bluetooth prefs, when i click the 'advanced' button, my computers are listing 2 extra serial ports, both default as active (on} and with no authentication.
I have tried deleting the bluetooth preferences file but it makes no difference. Every time i delete these serial ports, they reappear a short time later and also on every restart. It is as if the bluetooth defaults have been permanently modified Â
The reason i found these odd settings was because a bluetooth PAN had mysteriously appeared in my network settings. This happened on both my computers so maybe it is possible that i have inadvertently installed a trojan on both machines. Also, going back a few months, i had to call Apple to remove an iPhone that had been added under my Apple ID. I have never owned an iPhone so i wonder if this bluetooth issue is related to that.Â
I have tried to find any terminal commands that can alter the bluetooth defaults but not had any success ...
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
OS X :: Shift Keys Not Working Fine / Shift Key Showing Desktop And All Windows
Apr 9, 2009For some reason the function keys on my mac book changed, I restored them and now the shift keys have the function of showing the desktop and all windows.
I there a way I can restore the original function?
