Mac Kindergarten

Every time you control-click your trash bin to select Empty Trash, you have to confirm that “you want to remove the items in the Trash permanently”.

If you are sure, that you want to do it and are annoyed by this confirmation, just hold down the option key, before you click Empty Trash - no more questions asked.

To set up this permanently, read this post.

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Tags: keyboard, quick tip, trash bin

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