Renaming the "Trash" (pre OSX).

[Solvalou]

I've managed to find plenty of stuff on the net about doing this in OSX, but absolutely nothing on if it's also possible to rename it in a OS9 and before environment.

Does anyone know of it's possible?

Maybe I'm just being thick!

 

[LaPorta]

To my recollection, it is possible with ResEdit. It was in Macworld Mac Secrets. Let me check mine and I'll get back to you.

 

[LaPorta]

It appears that at least in versions of System 7 and 8, STR# resource 11750 is the name of the Trash. Replace it with whatever you want.

 

[dcr]

It appears that at least in versions of System 7 and 8, STR# resource 11750 is the name of the Trash. Replace it with whatever you want.

Interesting to know.  I never tried changing the name and on one system accidentally copy/pasted the icon which resulted in it never appearing "fat" when something was in the trash.  Usually, I applied a blue label to the trash which made the trash can blue-ish which I thought looked better.

 

[LaPorta]

It's funny: I saw the blue trash thing back when a few times and wondered "why would anyone want to color the trash?" Then again, I never used labels at all.

 

[Crutch]

The answer to “how do I change [any arbitrary piece of text]” in Classic Mac OS will almost always be to poke around in the relevant application’s STR and STR# resources with ResEdit (or, for menu and dialog text, MENU and DITL resources), assuming the app is designed per Apple’s standard guidelines.

Occasionally there is text lurking in a CODE resource, but that’s bad juju.

 

[Solvalou]

Pity it's so convoluted for such a basic thing. I think I'll leave it!  :

The reason I wanted to change it is because UK/European market System OS' are named as "Wastebasket", which I personally prefer. 

 

[olePigeon]

Install the Grouch extension, and rename it to Oscar.

 

[pax]

Oh, those were the times. The lid was up when it was time to empty the trash.  :lol: