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Secure empty trash function on the Mac

By Unregistered User (not verified), 3 October, 2015

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macOS and Mac Apps

Hi, I have recently updated to the latest version of Mac OS and have noticed that you can no longer empty the trash securely. I have looked around in preferences and cannot seem to find this function.
Does anyone know where to find it and how to turn this function on?
Thanks

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Do it through the finder menu

By KE7ZUM

8 years ago

Do it through the finder menu. I've always done it there. If not you an type rm -rf ~/.trashes and hit enter. Be very careful when typing this command though.

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