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

[Daly Jessup]

Norm wrote:

>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.

It also worked in Tiger.  Ed, just choose "Show All" after doing a 
successful Spotlight search, then use Command-Delete on items in the 
list that you want to delete.  They will disappear from the Found 
Items list as you go along.

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

Please either call me Mrs. Jessup or Daly. But my name is not 
"Jessup". It is Daly Jessup. Unless you want me to call you "Gould." 
;-)

>>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.

No, as many have said, you can delete from Spotlight by revealing the 
found items in the Finder version of Spotlight, which you access by 
choosing "Show All", which is always the first item in the list of 
your results in the menu bar version of Spotlight.

Daly
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