{"id":755,"date":"2011-06-01T11:33:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zerga.dyndns.org\/wordpress\/?p=755"},"modified":"2011-06-01T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:38:13","slug":"sanity-saver-1-secure-empty-trash-on-macosx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/01\/sanity-saver-1-secure-empty-trash-on-macosx\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanity Saver #1: Secure Empty Trash on MacOSX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zerga.dyndns.org\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/01\/sanity-saver-1-secure-empty-trash-on-macosx\/iphone_trash_verizon-300x299\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-765\" src=\"http:\/\/zerga.dyndns.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/iphone_trash_verizon-300x299-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/iphone_trash_verizon-300x299-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/iphone_trash_verizon-300x299-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/iphone_trash_verizon-300x299.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Since Leopard, emptying the trash was taking HOURS to complete because of the system&#8217;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&#8217;s life expectancy and most importantly: it just takes too long. I finally found the option to turn this thing off:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to Finder preferences<\/li>\n<li>Go to Advanced<\/li>\n<li>Untick &#8220;Empty Trash securely&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I know its not a big thing,but&#8230; 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 <em>Sanity Saver<\/em>. Still wondering why i can&#8217;t just select between &#8220;Empty Trash&#8221; and &#8220;Empty Trash Securely&#8221; in the moment he is anyway popping up a confirmation dialog&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Leopard, emptying the trash was taking HOURS to complete because of the system&#8217;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 [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18,6,9],"tags":[14,182,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}