{"id":8329,"date":"2022-05-02T13:06:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T18:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=9135"},"modified":"2022-05-02T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T20:12:36","slug":"put-files-in-the-macs-trash-using-the-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/put-files-in-the-macs-trash-using-the-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Put Files in the Mac\u2019s Trash Using the Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that you can drag files or folders to the Trash icon in the Dock for later deletion. And you probably know that you can select multiple items on the Desktop or in a Finder window by Command-clicking each one in turn (Shift-click to select a sequential range of items in a list view), after which you can drag them all to the Trash. But there\u2019s no reason to expend effort mousing if you prefer to keep your hands on the keyboard\u2014just press Command-Delete to send one or more selected files and folders directly to the Trash. Finally, if you need your disk space back right away, press Command-Shift-Delete to empty the Trash. However, we recommend not emptying the Trash frequently\u2014that way, you have a chance to recover something you discover that you needed after trashing it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9126\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/put-files-in-the-macs-trash-using-the-keyboard.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/put-files-in-the-macs-trash-using-the-keyboard-1.png 980w, https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/put-files-in-the-macs-trash-using-the-keyboard-2.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\"><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by iStock.com\/FabrikaCr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that you can drag files or folders to the Trash icon in the Dock for later deletion. And you probably know that you can select multiple items on the Desktop or in a Finder window by Command-clicking each one in turn (Shift-click to select a sequential range of items in a list view), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,106,25,112,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-apple-consulting-ct","category-apple-support-ct","category-mac","category-mac-support-ct","category-mactech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8341,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions\/8341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}