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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: El Capitan - Secure Delete Trash Option gone?
Date: 8 Oct 2015 22:03:20 GMT
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On 2015-10-08, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-10-08 17:00, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2015-10-08 16:40, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> On 2015-10-08, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>> On 2015-10-08 13:24, Snit wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/8/15, 3:13 AM, in article mv5fki$76u$2@speranza.aioe.org, "Calum"
>>>>>> <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 08/10/2015 09:43, FPP wrote:
>>>>>>>> Did I miss something?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My Finder menu only shows "Empty Trash"... the option to securely delete
>>>>>>>> the Trash is no longer there.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you have an SSD? If so, it's possible they (sensibly) removed it, as
>>>>>>> secure delete doesn't really work on SSDs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No SSD here... and the feature seems to be gone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Move the files to a folder from the trash and srm them there.
>>>>
>>>> Or whip up an AppleScript in 5 minutes to do the srm of anything in the
>>>> trash.
>>>
>>> Not sure you can act on things in the trash from Apple Script (then
>>> again I haven't tried).  For some reason I find Apple Script awkward in
>>> style.
>>
>> Huh?! Of course you can.
>
> As I said, I wasn't sure.  For example I can't open or run a file that's 
> in the trash, so not sure what ops I can do on them when in the trash 
> (other than move or delete).
>
> IAC, I have a batch file to do a periodic sweep and srm on any file or 
> folder in the folder "AAA" on any volume on my system.  So anything I 
> want to really nuke I move into there and from time to time run the batch.

You can run shell commands with AppleScript's "do shell script" command
as well.

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