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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1690088"><p>toMACsh, let's try to clear it up a bit. For me, when I get that "some items are locked" message I can select it to delete just unlocked ones and it does that perfectly, leave in the trash whatever it thinks is locked. That's how I find out what items are locked and start the process of finding out why they are locked. Is that not happening with your system?</p><p></p><p>I shouldn't have called it "your method" or made my post personal to you. I meant to say that if people in general use Trash to hold things they may or may not want to delete, there is a decided risk because items in the trash CAN be overwritten if the system needs the space. So, IMHO, it's not wise to use Trash as a holding pen. If one wants to delete something but not erase it, putting it somewhere other than Trash is better because the system won't overwrite it in that non-Trash folder. I just suggested a PreTrash folder name so that I would be reminded every time I saw the folder that "Oh, yeah, I need to go ahead and trash X now."</p><p></p><p>And I'm very sorry but I don't understand what you meant in this sentence:Can you restate that for me?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1690088"] toMACsh, let's try to clear it up a bit. For me, when I get that "some items are locked" message I can select it to delete just unlocked ones and it does that perfectly, leave in the trash whatever it thinks is locked. That's how I find out what items are locked and start the process of finding out why they are locked. Is that not happening with your system? I shouldn't have called it "your method" or made my post personal to you. I meant to say that if people in general use Trash to hold things they may or may not want to delete, there is a decided risk because items in the trash CAN be overwritten if the system needs the space. So, IMHO, it's not wise to use Trash as a holding pen. If one wants to delete something but not erase it, putting it somewhere other than Trash is better because the system won't overwrite it in that non-Trash folder. I just suggested a PreTrash folder name so that I would be reminded every time I saw the folder that "Oh, yeah, I need to go ahead and trash X now." And I'm very sorry but I don't understand what you meant in this sentence:Can you restate that for me? [/QUOTE]
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