On Mar 15, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Michael Winter wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > >> I must be doing something wrong as when I do it I get the "noise" >> saying error and it does not go into the trash. >> >> What OS level are you at? > > I'm currently at OS X 10.5.6, but its worked for every version I've > used. But just to be clear, I'm talking about using Spotlight. I've > never installed or used Notlight. > > -Mike > Mike: Thanks. But it looks like we are talking about the same thing. What I wanted to do is to *DELETE* the file (into the trash) . Ed ps: in 10.4.11 hitting the command delete key did not take it out of spotlight like other(s) have indicated but I am satisfied that it cannot be done in spotlight (to move it to the trash).