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remember Trashman Emptier?

ChristTrekker

ChristTrekker

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Remember this app, with the icon like a garbage truck and letters TM on the side? It would put a timestamp in the info field when dropping something in the trash, then automatically delete those items when it reached a certain age. Very handy! Is there anything that works like that for OS X? I just reclaimed 7% of my disk space by emptying my trash, so it would be great if it would self-empty. However, I don't want to get in the habit of trashing and emptying immediately, because there've been numerous "oh crap!" moments when I realized I threw the wrong folder in the trash minutes after doing it.

 
Remember this app, with the icon like a garbage truck and letters TM on the side? It would put a timestamp in the info field when dropping something in the trash, then automatically delete those items when it reached a certain age. Very handy! Is there anything that works like that for OS X? I just reclaimed 7% of my disk space by emptying my trash, so it would be great if it would self-empty. However, I don't want to get in the habit of trashing and emptying immediately, because there've been numerous "oh crap!" moments when I realized I threw the wrong folder in the trash minutes after doing it.
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depending on what flavour of X you are working in there was ican and today there;s dragthing that put that pre X trash can on your desktop and tell you how much is in that can

i wish X would tell me how much space is being reclaimed

 
i wish X would tell me how much space is being reclaimed
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Yeah, that would be nice. I do "df -h" in a shell before and after. Not nearly as convenient, but since I usually have a terminal open all the time, not too bad.

 
i wish X would tell me how much space is being reclaimed
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Yeah, that would be nice. I do "df -h" in a shell before and after. Not nearly as convenient, but since I usually have a terminal open all the time, not too bad.
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Could you kindly give the terminal text ( so that i could just copy/paste ) ? And, what exactly does that actually do ?

I'm terminally illiterate so i sure require a lot of help with terminal.

 
df -h is the command

df (i assume) means disk free the -H put it into "human readable" format and counts in 1000's (instead of 1024)

 
just to get this thru my thik head:

just launch the terminal and copy paste df - h into terminal and hit enter or return ?

Excuse me I'm just beginner to terminal ( the name terminal scares the hhhhhhhh out of me ) and i just don't fully understand how to use the terminal language

 
it should be noted that df is the command and -h is just a flag for the command, since i dont have osx (dont beat me please) i cant confirm, but in every other nix system on the planet you can also use man (command) to get a help page, so in this case

man df

should pop open a help page for df in the term

 
Technically, speaking " -h" is the command argument. However, you are right, Mac OS X does have a man command, so

Code: 
man df
will give information about the df command.

 
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