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Title: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: sim085 on July 20, 2009, 08:45:03 AM

Hello,

I created two partitions, and under the System partition I have a directory called Programs and Games. When I formatted the partition I also created a Trashcan icon. The problem is this; I can leave out the Programs and Games directories, however I can not do the same with the Trashcan icon! Does anyone know if this is possible in some way or another? I would really like to have the Trashcan icon available from Workbench.

Regards,
Sim085

Title: Re: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: amigagr on July 20, 2009, 10:17:26 AM

what version of workbench are you running? in version 3.5 and 3.9 you can use the commodity BenchTrash which running from WBStartup.

Title: Re: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: sim085 on July 20, 2009, 10:41:22 AM

Quote from: amigagr;516226

what version of workbench are you running? in version 3.5 and 3.9 you can use the commodity BenchTrash which running from WBStartup.

... sorry ... I thought I had mentioned it. I am using Workbench 3.1. When I try to use the leave out option the screen flashes and nothing happens (unlike a normal directory). I was wondering if maybe there is some way to make this work!

Title: Re: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: MozzerFan on July 20, 2009, 11:00:33 AM

You can't leave out the trashcan.
 
Under 3.1 you can use a utility like globaltrash. http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/GlobalTrash

Title: Re: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: sim085 on July 20, 2009, 11:52:47 AM

Quote from: MozzerFan;516231

You can't leave out the trashcan.
 
Under 3.1 you can use a utility like globaltrash. http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/GlobalTrash

Thanks MozzerFan :) I will try that one out.

Title: Re: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: itix on July 20, 2009, 12:36:11 PM

There is BenchTrash (http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/BenchTrash) at Aminet and it works on all Amigas with Kickstart 2.0 or newer

Title: Re: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: amigadave on July 20, 2009, 03:56:24 PM

On a related side note, how can anyone delete the "Trashcan" directory and icon if it was created by mistake when repartitioning a hard drive?  Can the attributes of the directory and icon be changed so it can be deleted, or is there another way to get rid of it besides reformatting or repartitioning the hard drive?

Title: Re: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: Thomas on July 20, 2009, 05:07:05 PM

Quote from: amigadave;516273

On a related side note, how can anyone delete the "Trashcan" directory and icon ?

In a shell window enter

delete dhx:trashcan dhx:trashcan.info

Title: Re: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: sim085 on July 20, 2009, 09:51:35 PM

Quote from: itix;516244

There is BenchTrash (http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/BenchTrash) at Aminet and it works on all Amigas with Kickstart 2.0 or newer

I opted to use this one (BenchTrash). It is really great and does what I was looking for :)

Regards,
Sim085

Title: Re: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: T3000 on July 20, 2009, 10:19:13 PM

I don't use the trashcan...  delete.
Plain and simple.

Title: Re: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: tone007 on July 21, 2009, 01:45:52 AM

Trash cans are for Ataris!

Title: Re: How can I 'leave out' Trashcan?
Post by: NovaCoder on July 21, 2009, 02:26:18 AM

Quote from: T3000;516314

I don't use the trashcan...  delete.
Plain and simple.

Same here, I moved my trashcan thing out of my WBSTARTUP and now a delete is a delete :)