[X4U] Can you delete a file(move to the trash) in spotlight?

[Ralph]

Folks sometimes confuse Spotlight with the Finder File>Find menu item.

You invoke File>Find by pressing CMD+F in the Finder, and you invoke  
Spotlight by pressing the key combination that is specified in the  
Spotlight item in System Preferences (if enabled; the default is CMD 
+Spacebar).

Spotlight doesn't allow deleting a file; File>Find does:

+ Invoke Spotlight in the Finder, highlight a file in the list and  
press CMD+Backspace; the System emits the alert sound specified in  
the Sound item in System Preferences and does nothing to the  
highlighted file.

+ Press CMD+F in Finder, highlight a file in the list and press CMD+  
Backspace; the file moves to the Trash as indicated by the file path  
at the bottom of the window (some have described this as Spotlight  
behavior; it is not).

Ralph Jones
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