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Re: empty trash on certain disk
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Re: empty trash on certain disk


  • Subject: Re: empty trash on certain disk
  • From: Jay Louvion <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:50:33 +0200

le 22/07/05 14:39, Feat à email@hidden est réputé(e) avoir écrit :

> At 2:15 PM +0200 7/22/05, Jay Louvion wrote:
>> I'm not quite sure if I get the point; Are you talking about a mounted disk
>> image (with read/write permissions ?) my question might be stupid, but I am
>> curious: what exactly are you doing with a mounted disk image and with stuff
>> going to the trash ?
>
> I do use sparse disk images to gather the contents of CD's or DVD's before
> committing them to disk: however since some of the files have become obsolete
> at burning time, I need to get rid of them... So I have exactly the same
> problem, and I usually solve it by removing the offending files from that
> volume /.Trashes/<UID>/ folder with 'sudo rm' commands.
>
> Guess I could do this with a script anyhow, but I like to see what I'm doing.

You do know that you can include Terminal type commands in AppleScript with
the "do shell script 'rm -R /.Trashes/<UID>' with administrator priviledges"

Or something like that... Look into it (but as usual when Terminal command,
try it out first with something you can loose...) ;-)


Jay Louvion
Studio Casagrande
3, rue Müller-Brun
1208 Geneva

T+4122 840 3272
F+4122 840 3271

skypeme:
jaylouvion

www.studiocasagrande.com


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