{"id":2609,"date":"2010-03-06T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T18:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2010-03-06T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T18:34:39","slug":"why-does-emptying-the-trash-in-snow-leopard-take-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/why-does-emptying-the-trash-in-snow-leopard-take-so-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does emptying the trash in Snow Leopard take so long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 14px;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used to under 10.5. I just emptied about 100 files (totaling 50 megs \/ all local files), and it was about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">It feels like its doing a secure delete, but I&#8217;m just using the &#8220;Empty Trash&#8221; option (click on bin &#8212; choose empty trash). Is it possible that the secure delete is turned on by default?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Liberation Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 18px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 14px;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Go to\u00c2\u00a0<strong style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Finder<\/strong> \u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00a0<strong style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Preferences<\/strong>, and in the Advanced tab uncheck\u00c2\u00a0<strong style=\"font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Empty Trash Securely<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The default did not change for me, but for some unknown reason<a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread.jspa?messageID=10064246\"> it did change for some\u00c2\u00a0people.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used to under 10.5. I just emptied about 100 files (totaling 50 megs \/ all local files), and it was about 20 minutes. It feels like its doing a secure delete, but I&#8217;m just using the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/why-does-emptying-the-trash-in-snow-leopard-take-so-long\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5,64,25],"tags":[207,147,84,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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