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10.6: Secure empty trash via Dock's trash can icon System 10.6
Snow Leopard only hintIf you click-and-hold on the Trash icon in the Dock, the contextual menu appears, showing Open and Empty Trash. Press and hold the Command key, though, and Empty Trash turns into Secure Empty Trash.
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Command-right click
Authored by: googoo on Tue, Oct 27 2009 at 9:38AM PDT
Or you can do a command-right click.

-Mark

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10.6: Secure empty trash via Dock's trash can icon
Authored by: akuma-x on Tue, Oct 27 2009 at 2:40PM PDT
Or, if you have already set it to securely empty Trash in the Finder prefs. it does it on it's own now.
This is new to 10.6 from what I can tell.
In other OS X versions you had to bring up the Trash Finder window to invoke the secure empty or do it from the Finder menu bar.

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10.6: Secure empty trash via Dock's trash can icon
Authored by: robogobo on Tue, Oct 27 2009 at 3:28PM PDT
That is also in Finder prefs in 10.5

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10.6: Secure empty trash via Dock's trash can icon
Authored by: emale on Wed, Oct 28 2009 at 12:13AM PDT
This is odd...wasn't it the option-key in all previous MacOS X versions?
Would have further tried the option key to do so "menu item manipulations".

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