Move file to Trash on Snow Leopard from Terminal

osx-snow-leopardterminaltrash

Snow Leopard allows users to "Put Back" files that were moved to the Trash from Finder. However, when I do mv <file> ~/.Trash from the command line I don't get the "Put Back" option.

Is there a native command in Snow Leopard that moves a file to the trash while letting me still be able to us "Put Back"?

Best Answer

When you move a file to the trash OS X updates the .DS_Store file inside ~/.Trash with the "Put back" information. (See this question for more details)

In order to update this you would have to also update the .DS_Store file when you move a file to the Trash in Terminal.

Related Solutions

Macos – Snow Leopard sluggish after upgrade from Leopard

mds is Spotlight, indexing your data. It will take some time (though I heard it's faster in Snow Leopard than in earlier versions), but let it do its work, and once it's done, your Mac should be much faster again.

Also, .0 versions of OS X have had many problems, and 10.6.1 is likely to be available in a month (based on data) - it will likely contain several bug fixes that didn't make it to 10.6.0.

Macos – How to tell where an item in the Trash came from

You can use dsstore_dump.pl tool which can read a store file's records in human-readable format.

It's part of the Mac-Finder-DSStore project written in perl by Wim L which provides routines for reading and writing the .DS_Store files generated by the OS X. See also: dsstore_dump.pl at GitHub and at my fork.

Sample usage:

$ perl dsstore_dump.pl ~/.Trash/.DS_Store

    &makeEntries("foo.png",
        ptbL => "Users/username/Desktop/",
        ptbN => "foo.png"
    ),

Installation of this tool is covered in README file.

You can also run above script using the following one-liner in your Terminal:

perl <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kenorb/binfiles/master/dsstore_dump.pl) ~/.Trash/.DS_Store

Best Answer

Related Solutions

Macos – Snow Leopard sluggish after upgrade from Leopard

Macos – How to tell where an item in the Trash came from

Related Question