The Official Mac OS X "Tiger" Thread

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AppleKey + Shift + Delete? That's how I always empty trash without having to use the menus.

since AppleKey+Delete will move to trash.

Also (unrelated to your trash issue),

I've installed the latest Cisco VPN client and it is really buggy (with Tiger). Sometimes it wont launch the app (error messages/subsystem) and sometimes it will, after I turn AirPort off/on, and then connect to an Access point, BEFORE launching VPN client. After which it will let me connect.

However, there seems to be issues with the latest client and Tiger. I cannot disconnect! I have to force quit the app to close VPN client, but after relaunching it, my wireless connection wont let me connect again (until, of course, I restart the system again). The moral? Cisco VPN client (the latest one, which "works" for Tiger) is really buggy. You can't disconnect (at least in my experience), sometimes the app wont launch, sometimes you will have to reboot the entire system before it launches, and to say the least, it just does NOT work (as in Panther). :no:

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Pure, I still don't understand your question (sorry!). What do you mean, "force empty trash"?. Could you explain what you mean? (I really want to know). I understood it to mean: "what key combo can I press, to force my Mac to empty the trash"? :blush:

I know you're not talking about Secure Delete, so I'm a little confused.

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Sometimes you can't delete stuff because the system "thinks" it's still in use. It happens on both Windows and Mac OS. I know that on Windows you can force the trash to empty, even when the file is "in use". I was wondering if Mac OS X can do the same thing without using an app.

Secure Empty Trash for example always deletes a file, even when it's in use but it takes too long when deleting large files.

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Oh I see, I understand now! What I did in Windows was actually close off the Explorer (shell) and then delete the file manually in DOS prompt or through File->Run (Browse) in Task Manager and delete the file because explorer wasn't running, then restart Explorer.

I've never had to do it on a Mac, but I would probably have to reboot the system or try to do it in Terminal (or restart Finder, re-open the file and close it off) or eventually bugger it and leave it alone until it wants to be deleted :p

Thanks for clearing it up, I'm a new Mac user (a couple of months) but cheers for that. I guess that's a really neat key combo to have (if it exists). :)

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AAAARRGGGHHHHH got that weird buzz sound while playing an iTunes song + taking a screenshot. It sounds absolutely horrible! It goes like: bwwwwzzzzzzzz and it really stuns you for a second.

Edit: It doesn't do it every time btw. It just happened once. :wacko:

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Excuse me. I have been a mac user for what a week maybe...and you're alling me stupid. LMAO! That's a huge insult. It's not my fault windows is easier to learn how to use than OS X.

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Maybe it is for you, but don't act like it's a fact.

The Windows way:

Open the application that currently handles the filetype in debate, find the setting where you can make it stop opening the files by default (that isn't always there) click "OK" and close the program. Then go to the new application you want to handle your filetype, once again find the setting window where you can make it handle the filetypes you want it to handle, which once again isn't always there.

Or you have to launch an Explorer window, go to "Edit" or something, "Folder Options", to a tab called "blabla", search for it in a list with all filetypes know to your system, choose "edit" or whatever, click "Apply" and pray it will properly use the application's filetype icons.

The Mac OS X way:

ctrl click any filetype you want to change, go to "Get Info" (or select it and press cmd+I), go to the Open with: section of the Get Info window, change the application you want to open it with and click "Change All..." once, or you can choose not to "Change All..." so only that specific file will be opened with the new application.

Yeah, it's much easier on Windows! :rolleyes:

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