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Since installing Mac OS X 10.6, whenever I empty the trash, it takes about 50x as long as it used to under 10.5. I just emptied about 100 files (totaling 50 megs / all local files), and it was about 20 minutes.

It feels like its doing a secure delete, but I'm just using the "Empty Trash" option (click on bin -- choose empty trash). Is it possible that the secure delete is turned on by default?

splattne
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ericvg
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Go to Finder ยป Preferences, and in the Advanced tab uncheck Empty Trash Securely.

The default did not change for me, but for some unknown reason it did change for some people.

mark4o
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