Some application or action is deleting my ~/.Trash directory. I obviously don't know when this happens, save for the "Are you sure you want to delete…" dialog box.
I can restore the Trash, by restarting the Finder, as per this question, but I would like to figure out what is doing this.
Is there a way to monitor a directory (i.e., .Trash) and determine when it changes? So when my Trash is deleted, I'll know.
Best Answer
curl https://raw.github.com/gist/1043757/9b55d3ae174ea40a1ff3b031fec7f87c5a58aa0d/gistfile1.d > usage.dsudo dtrace -s usage.dThis will display every file deletion on your system. If you want to only display the deletion of "~/.Trash", add
| grep .Trashto the last command.