At 3:22 PM -0700 3/13/06, Doug McNutt wrote: >I have been known to forget about Apple's trash completely. In fact >I don't remember where the dock resides. Just a folder on each disk >for trash. To empty it go to Terminal.app, or in my case a BBEdit >worksheet, cd to your trash folder and rm *. It's instantaneous. If >I didn't have BBEdit I would write an AppleScript to do it with no >typing involved.. So you are not talking about the OS X GUI interface at all. But you tweaked my curiosity. Could you explain what you mean by "BBEdit worksheet"? I've just had a pleasant excursion into BBEdit Help but don't find the answer there, at least not in those words. I gather you are using some aspect of BBEdit AS "terminal"? Daly