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Empty Trash Shortcuts Mac

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Chris
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These are a few really simple shortcuts that every Mac owner should know about.  If you don’t yet know about these then this will save you loads of time.

Whenever you want to trash a file just select it by clicking on it. Hold the cmd / ⌘ key and hit the delete key.

cmd delete keyboard shortcut

And the file gets put straight into your trash folder. If you want to empty the Trash simply hold the cmd / ⌘ key + Shift and press the delete key.

Empty Trash Shortcut

Something you may not know however is that you can restore files to their original locations from your Trash folder by selecting them and using the add to trash folder shortcut (cmd / ⌘ key + delete key) or by right clicking and chosing the Put Back option.

Put Back From Trash

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I've been a passionate evangelist for Apple and the Macintosh throughout my working life, my first love was a Quadra 605 working with a small creative agency in the south of Norfolk UK in the mid 1990's, I later progressed to other roles in other Macintosh dominated industries, first as a Senior graphic designer at a small printing company and then a production manager at Guardian Media Group. As the publishing and printing sector wained I moved into Internet Marketing and in 2006 co-founded blurtit.com which grew to become one the top 200 visited sites in the US (according to Quantcast), at its peak receiving over 15 million visits per month. For the last ten years I have worked as an Affiliate and Consultant to many different business and start ups, my key skill set being online marketing, on page monetisation, landing page optimisation and traffic generation, if you would like to hire me or discuss your current project please reach out to me here.

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  • I am so happy to find you on the web. My MacBook is the most expensive mistake I’ve ever made. I miss my PC.

  • Thanks Chris. You’re a “hair saver”! I still have some hairs remaining on my head but I pulled out most of them trying to figure out why the hxll it was taking so long to empty my trash until I found your web page. Thanks!