Thanks for your help. I'm not trying to hide anything! I just wanted to clear the space and it only gives me "secure empty trash" as an option in Finder. However prompted by your reply I did a "find" which points to "Empty Trash" with same command preceded by a circumflex. Can you tell me how/where I get that please? Thanks. Graham
On Nov 3, 8:03 pm, Ranulph Glanville <ranu...@mac.com> wrote: > Why are you doing a secure empty? As you probably know, that writes lots of > zeros over everything it empties, and repeats this several times over. > > If you just want to trash stuff, do an ordinary empty. > > Doing a secure erase won't stop the police reconstituting your erased files, > as Ray, their uneraser in chief, will tell you! > > Ranulph > > On 2 Nov 2011, at 21:08, Grafras wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have a lot of stuff in my Trash. I'd like to clean it out but each > > time I do a "secure empty trash" it seems to go at such a snail's pace > > that I eventually give up. Is there a way of doing it in small bites > > or is there another way to speed the process please. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
