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From: rick@oresoft.UUCP (Rick Lahrson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Trashcan work?
Message-ID: <84@oresoft.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 01:34:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: oresoft.84
Posted: Tue Oct 13 01:34:17 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 14-Oct-87 04:54:19 EDT
References: <5212@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: rick@oresoft.UUCP (Rick Lahrson)
Organization: Oregon Software, Portland OR
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Summary: Trashcan is no ordinary directory

In article <5212@bbn.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>I just got an A2000 and I've been playing with it some and I noticed
>that when I clicked on the Trashcan the >empty trash< menu item
>didn't become enabled.... hmmm... so I decided to delete the
>stuff brute-force, and so I did shift-select on all of the stuff
>in the Trashcan (which was now visible since I had just opened it)
>and did the for-real "delete" menu item.  You might have noticed the
>slight flaw in the above: in addition to the stuff IN the trashcan
>I had left the Trashcan, *itself*, selected.  And, sure enough,
>the #@$%@# thing deleted the Trashcan!

The trashcan is not supposed to be an ordinary "drawer" type directory.
Yours obviously was.  You need to copy a REAL (galvanized iron, maybe? 8-)
Trashcan icon onto your WorkBench disk.  You must have one around there
somewhere.  Could be Commodore is shipping bogus Trashcans these days.
Try an older disk, select the Trashcan, and see if the "Empty Trash" menu
item gets un-ghosted.  If it does, you've found a Real Amiga Trashcan.
Copy it.  It won't be deletable, and it will be "emptyable".

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Rick Lahrson  ...tektronix!oresoft!rick

Disclaimer:  If I ever speak for anyone but me, I'll warn you in advance.