MacOS – Can’t find Trash in Finder or on Desktop

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I can't find the trashcan icon anywhere.

I'm using OS X 10.7.4. I'm not sure when it went missing.

I can still move items to the trash, but since I can't find it I can't empty it.

Is there a way to get the icons back, or an absolute path to it?

Note: I'm not using Time Machine.

It’s on the right corner of your Dock.

This seems to work on El Capitan. Control-select the file, then Delete Immediately from pop-up menu and confirm.

You shouldn't be able to delete the Trash folder from your Dock. To put it back, reset your Dock settings:

Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)
Run the following command to delete the Dock preferences file:
```
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
```
Log out and back in.