why does trash take forever to empty?

philiparcario

I went to empty a large old iTunes file of 42000 songs after making 2 backups of it. I dragged it to trash and clicked empty. It mentioned something new called secure trash empty. I figured must be a snow leopard upgrade. well 24 hours later it has moved from 42000 items to delete to 24 000 item to delete at this rate 36 more hours! Is thisgoing to be the new trash empty time or am I missing a nice easy way to do a none secure empty of the trash! Like pre snow was. TIA
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2012Mm base 2.5 with 16gb ram diy fusion drive
2012Mm quad with 8gb ram oem 1tb hdd

promise pegasus r6 3x 3tb + 3x 4tb =21tb hdds
lacie little big disk 2x 512gb ssds
synology 2tb disk station

Cypher · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:49 pm Post subject:

Secure empty trash takes a lot longer than a normal empty as its over writing the files with junk data multiple times prior to removing them. It’s a way of making the files much more unlikely to be recovered later should someone decide to have a look at your old HDD etc.

With 42000 large files to overwrite multiple times its definitely going to take a while

BTW secure empty trash isn't a new thing it was in previous versions of Mac OS X as well.
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philiparcario · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject:

thanks I must of asked for it with my preferences or snow leopard did it with an upgrade. This was meant to be asked under mac osx not desktops my apologies.
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2010 Mm 2.4 C2D oem 320gb hdd 8gb ram
2012Mm base 2.5 with 16gb ram diy fusion drive
2012Mm quad with 8gb ram oem 1tb hdd

promise pegasus r6 3x 3tb + 3x 4tb =21tb hdds
lacie little big disk 2x 512gb ssds
synology 2tb disk station

Cypher · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject:

I think you can specify to use secure empty, but I leave it with normal empty and only use Secure Empty from the finder menu if I'm deleting a file I think needs it

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Phil

Mac Mini 2.53GHz - iMac 2.0Ghz - Macbook Pro 2.4GHz - iPad 1 32GB 3G
6TB Netgear Ready NAS NV+ - 6TB Drobo S

Cypher · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:15 pm Post subject:

Just had a look and the setting is in finder preferences

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Phil

Mac Mini 2.53GHz - iMac 2.0Ghz - Macbook Pro 2.4GHz - iPad 1 32GB 3G
6TB Netgear Ready NAS NV+ - 6TB Drobo S

philiparcario · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:16 pm Post subject:

cypher much thanks.
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2010 Mm 2.4 C2D oem 320gb hdd 8gb ram
2012Mm base 2.5 with 16gb ram diy fusion drive
2012Mm quad with 8gb ram oem 1tb hdd

promise pegasus r6 3x 3tb + 3x 4tb =21tb hdds
lacie little big disk 2x 512gb ssds
synology 2tb disk station


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