On Nov 25, 2007, at 10:23, Kenneth Philbrick wrote: > As I type this message in Mail I want to interrupt and empty trash. > Simple you say - click on an open Finder area and make it active > long enough to drop trash using shift, command, backspace - EXCEPT > that no longer works. Mail remains active and trash is beyond > control unless I control click the dock symbol. > > Sure I could quit Mail and make Finder active, but why is that > necessary? Spaces could be the culprit but that is turned off. DragThing.