Sanity Saver #1: Secure Empty Trash on MacOSX
- June 1st, 2011
- Posted in Complaints and Grievances . GeekLife . OS
- By Zerga
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Since Leopard, emptying the trash was taking HOURS to complete because of the system’s default to actually overwrite all bits of a deleted file. Even though this might be secure to a certain degree, it is still BS for everyday use, because first of all not all data is that sensitive, second it drains battery and third it decreases your harddrive’s life expectancy and most importantly: it just takes too long. I finally found the option to turn this thing off:
- Go to Finder preferences
- Go to Advanced
- Untick “Empty Trash securely”
I know its not a big thing,but… before you apple fanboys are sending me your facepalms: I am not a regular user (just using a macbook pro on the road) and things like this can really drive me crazy and i do not know intuitively where to look for them on mac. So i was very happy to find this little Sanity Saver. Still wondering why i can’t just select between “Empty Trash” and “Empty Trash Securely” in the moment he is anyway popping up a confirmation dialog…
“and i do not know intuitively where to look for them on mac”: May i please use this quote every time someone tries to tell me how effin intuitive MaxOs is from now on? :-P
Also: An “Empty Trash” / “Empty Trash Securely” dialogue would require the user to actually make a decision on their own, which is not something Steve wants his sheeplets, excuse me, users to be hassled with… ;)
MacOS is definitely NOT intuitive. You have to learn things like on every other OS. And the dialog btw is already asking if you want to empty trash or cancel. So why not make it empty tash / empty trash securely / cancel? Is that really too much to choose from?
ASUS will substitute steve anyway now LOL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ANnpHnUrc
@Zerga
The ASUS guy is really funny, the Padfone doesn’t convince me though … but LAWL alright!
But dude, THREE choices from a simple trashcan (iCan), are you out of your effin mind??? ;)
@DAS_STROMKOPF
You are probably right, that might have been the design decision made by apple here… i can live with the non-securely emptying of the trashcan for now – not so much highly sensitive data on my mobile HDD anyway ;)