![]() Wouldn’t it be handy to have a keyboard shortcut? Thankfully, it’s easy to set up a custom keyboard shortcut for almost any OS X menu item.įirst, find the exact name of the menu item you wish to set up. Secure Empty Trash can be handy, but it requires using the mouse and navigating to the Menu Bar. “Secure Empty Trash,” found in the Finder’s Menu Bar item, will delete the contents of your OS X trash can and then immediately overwrite the space on your hard drive where those files were written. Apple has included a method in OS X to do just this. ![]() While this method of file management and deletion works well most of the time, there are occasions in which a user may wish to permanently delete a file, such as in the case of financial records or other personal information. But until those files are actually overwritten they still exist on the drive and are relatively easy to recover. ![]() ![]() The standard “Empty Trash” command removes files and folders from the user interface and tells the operating system to overwrite those files on the drive if necessary. As discussed on Mac Geek Gabs 356 and 358, Secure Empty Trash is a powerful, albeit potentially dangerous function of OS X. ![]()
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