Unable to delete files from finder

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I did option-3 on finder -> which puts the files into cascading directories mode.

Then I have selected a few files with the intention to delete them (see the screenshot). But there is no option to 'delete' – either from popup or from menu items (see second screenshot).

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Note: the files are all owned by my user as is the containing directory:

drwxr-xr-x  21 steboesch  wheel    714 Aug 18 15:28 util
-rw-r--r--   1 steboesch  wheel   5189 Aug 18 15:28 SqlBattery.scala
-rw-r--r--   1 steboesch  wheel   2266 Aug 18 15:28 SparkSqlQueryBenchmark.scala
-rw-r--r--   1 steboesch  wheel   3356 Aug 18 15:28 SparkSqlIgniteSql.scala
-rw-r--r--   1 steboesch  wheel   1250 Aug 18 15:28 SparkNode.scala
-rw-r--r--   1 steboesch  wheel   1433 Aug 18 15:28 SparkIgniteAbstractBenchmark.scala
-rw-r--r--   1 steboesch  wheel   1219 Aug 18 15:28 SparkDriverNode.scala
-rw-r--r--   1 steboesch  wheel   5997 Aug 18 15:28 SparkCoreRDDBenchmark.scala
-rw-r--r--   1 steboesch  wheel   1244 Aug 18 15:28 SparkBenchmarkArguments.scala
-rw-r--r--   1 steboesch  wheel   4350 Aug 18 15:28 SparkAbstractBenchmark.scala
-rw-r--r--   1 steboesch  wheel   8590 Aug 18 15:28 DataGenerator.scala
-rw-r--r--   1 steboesch  wheel   7602 Aug 18 15:28 CoreBattery.scala
drwxr-xr-x   3 steboesch  wheel    102 Aug 18 15:28 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 steboesch  wheel   2527 Aug 18 17:56 SparkIgniteSqlBenchmark.scala

Best Answer

Pressing Command ⌘3 in Finder changes to Columns view and selected files can be deleted by first moving them to the Trash by pressing Command ⌘Delete or by clicking Move to Trash from the File menu in Finder.

You can then empty the Trash by pressing:ShiftCommand ⌘Delete

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