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remember Trashman Emptier?

68kMLA Software 12 posts Jan 4, 2010 to Jan 6, 2010

#1 Mon, 4 Jan 2010 - 18:36 68kMLA

Remember this app, with the icon like a garbage truck and letters TM on the side? It would put a timestamp in the info field when dropping something in the trash, then automatically delete those items when it reached a certain age. Very handy! Is there anything that works like that for OS X? I just reclaimed 7% of my disk space by emptying my trash, so it would be great if it would self-empty. However, I don't want to get in the habit of trashing and emptying immediately, because there've been numerous "oh crap!" moments when I realized I threw the wrong folder in the trash minutes after doing it.

#2 Mon, 4 Jan 2010 - 20:22 68kMLA

i can't remember the name...but there is an app on the apple site that is a utility that you can set to do certain things at a given time....I'm sure one of them is empty the trash......oh wait here it is: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/mainmenu.html its called MainMenu

#3 Mon, 4 Jan 2010 - 21:28 68kMLA

Another shareware option is Compost.

#4 Mon, 4 Jan 2010 - 22:05 68kMLA

I found something named TrashTimer today too. I'll have to look into all these a bit more.

#5 Wed, 6 Jan 2010 - 05:37 68kMLA

Remember this app, with the icon like a garbage truck and letters TM on the side? It would put a timestamp in the info field when dropping something in the trash, then automatically delete those items when it reached a certain age. Very handy! Is there anything that works like that for OS X? I just reclaimed 7% of my disk space by emptying my trash, so it would be great if it would self-empty. However, I don't want to get in the habit of trashing and emptying immediately, because there've been numerous "oh crap!" moments when I realized I threw the wrong folder in the trash minutes after doing it.

depending on what flavour of X you are working in there was ican and today there;s dragthing that put that pre X trash can on your desktop and tell you how much is in that can

i wish X would tell me how much space is being reclaimed

#6 Wed, 6 Jan 2010 - 16:35 68kMLA

i wish X would tell me how much space is being reclaimed

Yeah, that would be nice. I do "df -h" in a shell before and after. Not nearly as convenient, but since I usually have a terminal open all the time, not too bad.

#7 Wed, 6 Jan 2010 - 16:46 68kMLA

i wish X would tell me how much space is being reclaimed

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Yeah, that would be nice. I do "df -h" in a shell before and after. Not nearly as convenient, but since I usually have a terminal open all the time, not too bad.

Could you kindly give the terminal text ( so that i could just copy/paste ) ? And, what exactly does that actually do ?

I'm terminally illiterate so i sure require a lot of help with terminal.

#8 Wed, 6 Jan 2010 - 17:55 68kMLA

df -h is the command

df (i assume) means disk free the -H put it into "human readable" format and counts in 1000's (instead of 1024)

#9 Wed, 6 Jan 2010 - 18:43 68kMLA

just to get this thru my thik head:

just launch the terminal and copy paste df - h into terminal and hit enter or return ?

Excuse me I'm just beginner to terminal ( the name terminal scares the hhhhhhhh out of me ) and i just don't fully understand how to use the terminal language

#10 Wed, 6 Jan 2010 - 19:53 68kMLA

Yes, just type:

Code:

df -h

And press return

#11 Wed, 6 Jan 2010 - 20:29 68kMLA

it should be noted that df is the command and -h is just a flag for the command, since i dont have osx (dont beat me please) i cant confirm, but in every other nix system on the planet you can also use man (command) to get a help page, so in this case

man df

should pop open a help page for df in the term

#12 Wed, 6 Jan 2010 - 21:06 68kMLA

Technically, speaking " -h" is the command argument. However, you are right, Mac OS X does have a man command, so

Code:

man df

will give information about the df command.