iMac
OS 10.3.1

All of a sudden when I drag something to the Trash I get the message that
the item will be deleted immediately, and my only choices are OK or Cancel.
I don't know if I have inadvertently changed a preference, but I can not now
put something into the trash and have it left there until I later choose to
empty.

Just before this began I used BatChmod to empty the trash of an application
that I wanted to get rid of, but that insisted it was still running when it
was not. Have I altered my Trash function forever by using BatChmod? Can I
return to trash default?
Larry

in article BBF69EAC.10A4B%LPreuss@NocomNocast.net, Larry Preuss at
LPreuss@NocomNocast.net wrote on 12/5/03 8:44 PM:

> iMac
> OS 10.3.1
>
> All of a sudden when I drag something to the Trash I get the message that
> the item will be deleted immediately, and my only choices are OK or Cancel.
> I don't know if I have inadvertently changed a preference, but I can not now
> put something into the trash and have it left there until I later choose to
> empty.
>
> Just before this began I used BatChmod to empty the trash of an application
> that I wanted to get rid of, but that insisted it was still running when it
> was not. Have I altered my Trash function forever by using BatChmod? Can I
> return to trash default?
> Larry
>

I am sorry to have bothered you with this; I just restarted my Mac, as I
should have done before posting, and all is normal. I wonder what happened.
Larry

Normally you see this in a Mac OS X network environment. When you delete
(move to Trash) anything from the OS X File Server, you get that.

"Larry Preuss" <LPreuss@NocomNocast.net> wrote in message
news:BBF69EAC.10A4B%LPreuss@NocomNocast.net...
> iMac
> OS 10.3.1
>
> All of a sudden when I drag something to the Trash I get the message that
> the item will be deleted immediately, and my only choices are OK or
Cancel.
> I don't know if I have inadvertently changed a preference, but I can not
now
> put something into the trash and have it left there until I later choose
to
> empty.
>
> Just before this began I used BatChmod to empty the trash of an
application
> that I wanted to get rid of, but that insisted it was still running when
it
> was not. Have I altered my Trash function forever by using BatChmod? Can I
> return to trash default?
> Larry
>

"disway" <disway@dont.email.me> wrote in message news:<8MJLb.44277$a44.36350@okepread04>...
> Normally you see this in a Mac OS X network environment. When you delete
> (move to Trash) anything from the OS X File Server, you get that.
>
> "Larry Preuss" <LPreuss@NocomNocast.net> wrote in message
> news:BBF69EAC.10A4B%LPreuss@NocomNocast.net...
> > iMac
> > OS 10.3.1
> >
> > All of a sudden when I drag something to the Trash I get the message that
> > the item will be deleted immediately, and my only choices are OK or
> Cancel.
> > I don't know if I have inadvertently changed a preference, but I can not
> now
> > put something into the trash and have it left there until I later choose
> to
> > empty.
> >
> > Just before this began I used BatChmod to empty the trash of an
> application
> > that I wanted to get rid of, but that insisted it was still running when
> it
> > was not. Have I altered my Trash function forever by using BatChmod? Can I
> > return to trash default?
> > Larry
> >

Did you get warned about low disk space about the time this happened ?
This sometimes happens when you get a couple of swap files (/var/vm)
which can get pretty big and eat up part of the disk. They are
removed when you boot and now you have room to save stuff in the
trash.

--jim