WARNING - files deleted without confirmation

This is more of a cautionary post that a question. We have unfortunately discovered a repeatable problem in the open/save dialog box. Should you accidentally right click on a listed folder/file (easy enough with a magic mouse), it is too simple to "move them to trash" since it is right at the top of the contextual menu. Maybe not a huge deal if the files are on a local drive and can be put back, but if they are on a network drive they will be deleted immediately WITHOUT the usual dialog box warning. Heads up.

This indicates the permissions on the .Trash folder (where the files are put when you delete them) are wrong.
Copy the following into the clipboard
ls -lad@ .Trash
Open a Terminal window (use Spotlight, type Terminal into the window) and paste the line into the Terminal window.
Copy the text here. You should see something like
LIBMACLAPcaggiano:~ frank$ ls -lad@ .Trash
drwx------ 6 frank admin 204 Sep 5 07:56 .Trash/
LIBMACLAPcaggiano:~ frank$

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By default JDS file browser "deletes" files to the trash can - a la windoze Recycle bin 8-( -
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There is no warning before deleting a playlist or folder?

Hello all,
I wanted to ask if there's a way to get a warning before deleting a playlist or folder?
I've organised my music in folders with playlist but hitting the return button will remove a complete folder at once and I don't know how to recover it. The songs are still in the lib but how can I recollect my lost playlists when I have a few 1000 songs in the lib?
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Alternative to File.delete() and deleteOnExit()

Is there any GOOD way to delete physical files from a Java app running under Windows besides the File object's incredibly lame and emasculated delete() and deleteOnExit() methods?
Despite my best efforts, I have yet to find ANY circumstances under which calling File.delete() will actually delete a file under Windows XP... It's as though the mere act of a running Java application becoming AWARE that a file exists is enough to make the JVM lock the file so nothing else can touch it (including the running app itself).
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The File object referenced above is used to open a FileInputStream, which is subsequently closed prior to calling the File object's delete() method.
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A running Java app creates a File object and does something that requires doing actual I/O upon it, like opening an input/output stream.
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"The JVM asks the host operating system to delete the file. If the OS refuses, the JVM tries to figure out why, and whether the failure might be its own fault. If it has reason to believe it's its own fault, it will force an immediate garbage collection run to clean up any outstanding mess, then ask the host OS to delete the file again. If it succeeds, the method returns true. If it fails, a RuntimeException (or subclass that actually lets the caller figure out why it failed) gets thrown."
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