Can't move items to trash.

I can't move items to my trash can on my desktop. I have to right click and click on "move to trash" then I am promted for my password before the item is trashed.

Is this Trash can really on the Desktop, or the one in the Dock?
Solving Trash Problems...
http://thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html

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Suddenly I can't move files to trash, whe I try to drag them to it there is a cirle with a diagonal line across. HELP!

Suddenly I can't move files to trash, whe I try to drag them to it there is a cirle with a diagonal line across. HELP!

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If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
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I can't move emails to trash...instructions on support say go to "advanced"--my ipad doesn't have any advanced on it?

Where are you looking for it ? If you go into Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and select the email account on the right-hand side of that screen, and then tap the Account line (with your email account name and an arrow to the right of it) at the top of the that screen. Then tap Advanced at the bottom of the next screen, then Deleted Mailbox, and under On The Server tap the 'Trash' folder so that it gets a tick against it - then come out of that series of popups by tapping on the relevant buttons at the top of them and then see if you can delete emails.

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Hi,
I have zero experience in this, all I have done is just from having googled stuff, so please be patient if I'm asking stupid questions. I have tried searching the forum first but I can't find the answer to this question.
I download music from various (LEGAL) websites and I don't want to have to manually move it into iTunes. My aim is that every time an .mp3 file is downloaded into my downloads folder, it is automatically moved into my iTunes music library and added to a 'downloaded' playlist, then deleted from my downloads folder.
This has taken me ages because after I got it working I did an iTunes update which ruined it all. I tried to edit the offending actions but ended up just downgrading iTunes to the previous version via Time Machine.
I am using OS X version 10.6.7 and iTunes 10.2.1
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Also, is it possible to have the automator application only run when music files are downloaded? Because at the moment it runs every time I download anything at all.
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Sorry, there was an error with my workflow in that saving to the variable should have come after filtering the items:
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[SOLVED] Can't move files to trash in my ext-4 partition

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I know that it must have a silly solution but I cannot make it work. I've searched in the forum but I haven't found exactly the same issue.
My HDD has an ext-4 partition for /, a swap partition and another ext-4 partition called "Archivos" for my files (not home, home is just as a folder in / ).
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bpont wrote:I found this (old) thread because I was having a similar problem, but with a btrfs partition. I followed Foucault's advice on post #4, but it didn't work initially. Then I went into the options for PCManFM and unchecked the "Erase files on removable media instead of trash can creation" and that did the trick. If the same solution works for you, consider marking this thread as solved.
Maaaaaaannnn (or woman, I don't know ), hahaha! What a silly solution!!! And I got it right first time. I can't believe that this could have a solution as easy as this one. In fact this should not impress me too much since the first sentence I wrote in this thread was "I know that it must have a silly solution but..." hahaha.
Since it's not the computer I use to use I already forgot about this after such a long time. Just tried and worked perfectly.
Thaaaaaaank you bpont!!! [SOLVED]
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My photos are on networked external hard drive, and I have the folder on the drive mounted. However, when I try to delete a photo from this drive within Aperture, I get a message saying "Cannot Move Files to Trash" "You don't have access to the Trash on the master files' volume."
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