this thing gets too trashy

**rubah** · 12-09-2006, 12:33 AM

can you not delete one item at a time from OS X's trash area? I really don't relish the idea of deleting everything at one go or having to manually drag things I don't want deleted out.

Also why does sidetrack automatically lose every change I make to it every time I restart? It's getting kinda of irritating having to reenter the settings with the default crippled state sidetrack leaves my touchpad in.

**o_O** · 12-09-2006, 01:24 AM

Can you not do the whole Ctrl+click to select/deselect individual items?

You could use a console to do it too.

Code:

cd /path/to/trash/
rm [regular expression]

With the sidetrack thing, it's very possible that it's doing some kind of session restoration. When you restart your PC, make sure you log out using the Apple menu or wherever it is.

**rubah** · 12-09-2006, 01:53 AM

I don't remember ever logging in

You can select items, but the only option from there is "Empty Trash" and "Secure Empty Trash" which I assume it does some sort of precautionary stuff with delicate data such as overwriting it with 1s and 0s or something.