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

[Norman Cohen]

Ed,

If you are speaking about the spotlight menu on the upper right of the  
screen, then I think you are right that you cannot delete files from  
there. However, if you open up a Spotlight window by choosing the  
"Show all" option (or use the Finder search field at the top of each  
Finder window, then you can delete any of the items listed in that  
window by "File:Move to Trash" or the equivalent keyboard shortcut  
Command-Delete. This works on Leopard 10.5.6. I won't comment on Tiger  
or previous versions of Leopard.

Norm
On Mar 15, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Ed Gould wrote:

> OBTW means Oh By The Way
>
> I was not talking at all about NOTLIGHT until someone else brought  
> it up. I *THOUGHT* it was Jessup, but who cares at this point.
>
> I started this question about SPOTLIGHT (being able to delete (or at  
> least move the file to the trash)) I think after many iterations  
> from multiple people the answer is you cannot.
> I honestly can see the need to be able to do this, yes it is  
> dangerous but IMO it is needed (if someone want to put in the prompt  
> like "do you really want to trash this?"   that would probably be  
> acceptable (with some other cavets).
>
> Ed