I deleted the .Trash directory - how to recreate it?

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I deleted the .Trash directory - how to recreate it?

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11-02-2009, 03:49 PM

Hal Itosis

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Las_Vegas


	To be a little safer, don't trust that Terminal is in your home folder: Code: mkdir ~/.Trash

The "cd" in nijm's post took care of that. (cd with no arg takes us home).

FWIW, the trash directory gets recreated anew every time we log in... provided it was empty (or missing), at logout.

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BTW -- for Terminal-based solutions -- i would go with:
mkdir -m 700 ~/.Trash
...to set the proper (secure) perms.

Last edited by Hal Itosis; 11-02-2009 at 03:57 PM.

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