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October 9, 2009 by Rosco 8 Comments

Change Secure Empty Trash on Snow Leopard

Symptoms:

  • Since upgrading to Mac OS X Snow Leopard you have noticed that you can only empty the trash using the Secure option
  • Emptying the trash takes an excessive amount of time on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  • When you open the Trash the button to empty reads Empty Secure.  There is no Empty button

 

Explanation:

Finder Preferences Pane

The OS X Finder preference “Empty Trash securely” is enabled.

 

Solution:

  1. Open OS X’s Finder by clicking the Finder icon in your dock
  2. Open Finder Preferences by clicking Finder menu, Preferences or by pressing CMD+, on your keyboard
  3. Click Advanced
  4. Clear the check mark for the option “Empty Trash securely”
  5. Close Preferences

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Comments

  1. jenna says

    June 2, 2010 at 16:33

    Thank you SOOOOO very much!!
    Love you for this!!

    Reply
  2. prunella says

    July 1, 2010 at 22:11

    After waiting almost an hour for items to securely be deleted, I ran across this. Thanks for the sanity saver!!!

    Reply
  3. conkee says

    January 3, 2011 at 17:35

    Life saver!!!!!

    Reply
  4. phil says

    March 22, 2011 at 17:29

    ask a question & 1st hit on google…thank you for the tip…saved me tons of time & lots of head scratching …
    -p

    Reply
  5. Reg says

    August 25, 2011 at 00:10

    Thank you … this solved my problem … Secure Empty Trash would not delete files that had been marked as Locked, as as others have said, saved tons of time.

    Reply
  6. Che says

    August 30, 2011 at 23:42

    Yohuu!!!!! Huraaa!!!!!
    Thank you!
    it was so annoying…

    Reply
  7. Damian says

    June 23, 2013 at 03:35

    Short and sweet. Plus the info was fruitful. Cheers

    Reply
  8. Annelene says

    August 30, 2013 at 04:31

    Now this is what is called clear, precise and totally useful guidance! Thanks, made my day 😉

    Reply

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