Items dragged to Trash are deleted immediately

I don't know why, but since a couple of days, any file I drag to the Trash (or 'right-click' and choose move to trash), now gets deleted immediately.
It used to sit in the Trash until I decided to empty.
I guess there's a settings somewhere, to get it back to normal, but I can't find it
Any help?

If you don't have permission to delete your own .Trash folder, that's likely your problem. It should not take admin privileges to do this.
Here's another way to do it that will nuke the folder down to bedrock... let's say your regular user account is "cat" and your admin account is "supercat". Log in to "supercat", go to the Terminal and type in this command:
sudo rm -rf /Users/cat/.Trash
You'll be prompted for your password... type in the "supercat" account password and press return. This will run the command as root, which means that, as far as the computer is concerned, it's God telling it to delete the folder!
Of course, because of the power of this command, you should be very cautious with it. The "rm" command combined with "sudo" and "-rf" will cheerfully delete anything you point it at - including your entire hard drive - with no undo possible.

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Trash always deletes immediately

Dear all,
When I drag files or folders to the trash, they are always immediately deleted. I checked the permissions for .Trash, which look fine to me. However, .Trash turns out to be a file. Shouldn't it be a directory instead? Here is the entry:
-rwxr--r-- 1 moritz staff 254519 Mar 2 2005 .Trash
Any idea what's wrong here? Many thanks in advance.

Hi mviehweg!
Welcome to Apple Discussions!!
When I drag files or folders to the trash, they are always immediately deleted.Well, there are usually two possible reasons for this, one mentioned by iGary, the other permissions on your Home directory.
But since your .Trash is a file, that would explain it. Go into Terminal and copy and paste the following into the Terminal window:
rm ~/.TrashThen press return, and it should be gone (unless by chance it is locked).
The Finder should make you a new .Trash folder. If this doesn't happen, log out and back in again.

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Somehow a setting got changed and now when I drag an item to the trash, it permanently deletes it. So therefore, the trash is always cleaned out. Is there a way to set this back so if I drag the wrong thing to the trash, I can find it there?
Thanks for your help.

You might want to read over this:
Solving Trash Problems
and try this:
rm -rf ~/.Trash
But if you get permissions errors this:
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash
where the sudo will prompt for your admin password (and won't echo when you type).

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How can I change it so that the files remain in the trash until I choose to empty it.
Also, I have gone to "get info" for the trash, and when I try to give myself permission to read & write, I am prompted to give my password, which I do, but then it says "operation could not be completed ... unexptected error, code 136.
Any ideas.
Please help.

That message is typical behavior when deleting files from a server, but I suspect your problem isn't going to be answered with that. What do you mean when you say "I try to give myself permission to read & write" for the Trash? Your Trash can is normally an invisible folder called ".Trashes". And by default it should be read and write.

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I have search here and ran the terminal script mkdir ~/.Trash
I get the message permission denied. I have repaired all permission but I still can't use the trash function as everything is deleted then and there.

So you did the steps outlined that said:
Emptying the Trash
In some circumstances, folders for which you do not have write permission can end up in the Trash; and you will not be able to delete them or the files contained in them. Remember that in Mac OS X there is not a single Trash folder. Instead, each user has a Trash folder in their home directory (named ".Trash"). There is also a Trash folder for the startup volume, and Trash folders for other volumes or disks. When a user throws away a file on a local non-startup volume, the name of the folder on that volume is "/.Trashes/UID", where UID is the user ID number of the user (which may be seen in NetInfo Manager). In either case, all Trash folders are hidden from the user in the Finder. In these situations you can either start up into Mac OS 9 to locate the files and delete them, or you can use the Terminal application. Issues with emptying the Trash are much less likely to occur in Mac OS X 10.2 or later, since the Finder empties the Trash as the root user. However, issues may still occur with files on remote volumes for which your local root user has no special privileges.
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Type: sudo rm -rf
Note: Type a space after "-rf". The command does not work without the space. Do not press Return until Step 6.
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Choose Select All from the Edit menu.
Drag all of your Trash into the Terminal window. This causes the Terminal window to automatically fill in the name and location of each item in your Trash.
Press Return.
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I haven't had this problem, and don't want to force-create it, so I haven't tested this. Would you mind doing so?
Let's apply a variation of the Full Double Reverse Caggiano:
Try this:
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Hello
Is there a way to delete a single item from the trash, while leaving all other items in the trash?

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