Why do .ipa files end up in the trash?

I just got done syncing wirelessly my iPad to my pc to iTunes and there are a bunch of .ipa files in my trash can, I'm curious why they go there and
if they are safe to delete?

Because older versions have been undated. The old versions go into the Trash. They are safe to delete.

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You can move those fiels to an external "archive" drive to save them then delete them from your internal drive.

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When I move a file from the desktop to trash, the file only moves to the trash after I open the trash

So if I have a file on the desktop and I delete it, it makes the 'throwing it in the trash' sound but the trash can icon stays empty (if I don't already have something there) until I click on trash, and the file still appears to be on my desktop until I click the trash. If, after I've moved something to the trash, I then drag the file that seems to still be there around the desktop and drop it somewhere randomly, the file moves itself from the trash back onto the desktop! Can anyone help?
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Do you have Time Machine setup to backup your hard drive? If so you can use it to recover the files.
If not you will need to use a file recovery application like SubrosaSoft FileSalvage. It lets you run the application to check the drive for files that can be recovered before having to purchase it. There are other similar applications out there also. You can go to VersionTracker.com and search for "file recovery" to get other possible apps.
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HT1526 I can't delete any files, can't empty the trash bin, can't open my iTunes. Safari isn't working properly either. I keep getting the error message -50 when i try to delete anything...HELP!

I can't delete any files, can't empty the trash bin, can't open my iTunes. Safari isn't working properly either. I keep getting the error message -50 when i try to delete anything...HELP!

Hello, not too helpful, but...
enum {
paramErr = -50, /*error in user parameter list*/
Usually means a bvad or unacceptable Charachter in a File or Folder name...
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA20831
Solving Trash Problems...
http://thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when trying to open Safari or iTunes.

Why does iTunes allow you to play music files that are in the trash?

I recently was up grading my music library why I got my new mac. I had 2 I tunes libraries on my computer and checked to see which one I was using and deleted the other music folder. While the folder was in the trash I played the music to make sure that I would not have a problem...... then I empted the trash. Problem was that after emptining the trash I could not play the music anymore. so my question is is there a way to set up a preference to not allow I-tune to not allow access to files in the trash.

If an iPod is set to automatically sync from a particular iTunes library, when you connect it to that iTunes library, every song on the iPod exists in the iTunes library. Therefore, if you want to play a song on the iPod using iTunes on the computer, you can just play that song from the computer's iTunes library, and not the iPod.
If an iPod is set to load songs manually (by dragging songs to the iPod in iTunes), then the iPod is NOT syncing to a particular iTunes library. The library on the iPod is separate; songs on the iPod may not be in the computer's iTunes library. Therefore, you can play songs stored on the iPod using iTunes on computer.
If your shuffle happens to be 1st or 2nd gen, they work differently from other iPods. They are always associated with only one iTunes library at a time, so you cannot play songs on the shuffle using iTunes on the computer.
I was wondering how I could transfer music from my iPod to my library
You cannot transfer song files from iPod to computer using iTunes (except for songs purchased from the iTunes Store). However, there are third-party methods and utilities that can transfer song files from iPod to computer. If you do a Google search on something like "ipod transfer," you should get some links.

Why All Podcasts Files Are Included In The Music Playlist????

I am desperate for an answer!!! I have searched online for hours and could not find a solution to this! I have the 5th Generation iPod and everything was fine in the beginning. I recently discovered all my podcast files are listed in the music playlist and this is very annoying because the podcasts are included in the library of songs! When I want to listen to songs, I just wanna listen to songs ... NOT PODCASTS! Why can't the iPod differentiate a podcast file with a music file? They lump them altogether in the music playlist!!!! Under the Podcast category, I found podcasts there also! Which means, the podcasts files are duplicates!!!
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1.) Podcast files are grouped in Podcasts playlist in iTunes. Music library does not show them - this is ok, everything's normal here
2.) Podcast files are listed in Podcast playlist in iPod - this is ok, as it should be
3.) Podcast files are listed in Music playlist in iPod - WHY????
I would appreciate some answers to this bizarre problem!!!
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well.....to get the podcasts out of the artists menu (if you don't mind them in the compilations menu) you have to go to the podcast's info and press "yes" for compilations. I hope that helps some of you because that isn't really my problem. Because i have a lot of podcasts there is a long list of them in the songs menu and that makes me angry. I wonder if Apple can make an update so that you can choose to have your podcasts in the Artists and Songs menus. If any Apple worker sees this, please do.
I also have been looking in the internet for answers to this and i have found that the only reason that this is useful if you want to hear a series of podcasts without having to choose a single one every single time.
I don't know if i read this here, but whoever said that iPods aren't perfect because of this flaw, then they are wrongs. How come they are rightly grouped in iTunes?
I forgot to mention this. The solution posted doesn't work because:
1. I erase all the podcast from iTunes and only keep them in my iPod.
2. I had to erase all my songs from iTunes because i had to format my computer. Yes, it was stupid because i could have backed them up, but i forgot.
3. When you sync something, you erase everything you have right now. It would take too long to download all the podcast and too much money to buy all the songs.
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Why do I keep seeing FONTS in the TRASH as "Recovered Files"?

My computer isn't crashing... but most of the time when I restart I see that there's something in the trash.
Oh, it's a Recovered Files folder! Wow, must be important?
Nah. It's just a few random fonts.
This actually happens quite often. And I don't even remember using those fonts. It happens even when I don't use Word or InDesign.
I think it might be Safari?
???

It is Safari, as I have occasionally seen the same thing. I think what happens is this:
1. You go to a site that specifies some odd-ball font that you do not have installed, but you do have a copy of it somewhere (in my case I have an enormous font collection on a backup drive)
2. The system now knows where all fonts are--don't remember whether this started in Leopard or Snow Leopard--regardless of WHERE those fonts are, and Safari has access to this info
3. Since the font isn't installed Safari asks you if it can use the font
4. Safari copies the font into a temporary location, probably one of the standard tmp folders in /private/var/folders/ and leaves the font there
5. When you shutdown and subsequently restart the system disposes of a lot of gunk that gets left in the tmp folder, and puts said gunk in the Recovered Items folder.
If it annoys you to have stuff in the Trash, you could go ahead and install the fonts. However I have never bothered since TextEdit ALWAYS leaves a bit of trash behind, and I use it nearly every day, so I almost always have to empty the Trash and the Recovered Items folder anyway.
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Why don't items I put in the trash appear in the trash?

Sometimes items it put in the trash don't appear in the trash, although they are there. This often happens when I manually delete podcasts from iTunes, or drag an item such as a PDF from my downloads folder to the trash. The dock icon remains in it's "empty" state and bring up the trash finder window also shows that it is empty. If I restart my MacBook however, the items appear in the trash and are able to be deleted. Odd.

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I a first time Mac-user and running MAC OS Lion so there's a lot that isn't familiar to me and I'm towards the bottom of a fairly steep learning curve. I'm having a similar problem - I'm importing pictures to iPhoto and I've deleted a couple of them but they don't appear in my Trash folder (which is on my Dock). Now it's possible that I'm being a bit dumb and missing something very obvious but I've read through this article and I don't see how it addresses the issue.
I'd really be grateful if some-one could explain to me in plain English why I can't see deleted files in my Trash folder and how I can rememdy that.
Thank you,
For photos deleted from iPhoto, you need to empty the iPhoto trash under file while the iPhoto App is open.
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Importing clips from iMovie project (they keep ending up in the trash)

I have never tried to import other clips from another iMovie project before and I just tried it yesterday. This is what I did:
-I went into the other project and clicked on each individual clip from that project that I wanted (one at a time).
-I copied that clip and then saved it to the desktop
-From there I copied those clips to my external drive (which holds the new project that I am working on
-I then opened up the new project in iMovie
-I went to File<Import
-I selected the clips that I had copied over to the external drive
-I imported them
-They all showed up fine, they played fine and I was able to edit them and put them into the time line as well
The problem I face though is after I save the project and exit, the next time I open the project, each of those clips are missing and have been placed in the trash
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks ahead of time for your help!

It sounds like something may be preventing iMovie from properly saving the project on the external drive. The drive format may be wrong, or third-party software might be causing conflicts. More here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1852869#1852869
Another possibility is that you are opening the wrong project file saved inside the iMovie 5 project. If your project was originally an iMovie 4 project converted to iMovie 5 that's an easy mistake to make. More here:
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Note that the copy/export/import routine you used can be simplified enormously. iMovie 5 lets us Copy and Paste clips much more simply. To copy clips from Project A to Project B, open Project A, select all the clips you want copied to Project B, choose Edit > Copy, open Project B, move the playhead where you want to place the clips, and Paste. iMovie will import all the files that support those clips from Project A to Project B. Note that it imports the entire file for the clip, not just the clip itself. That's so the clip inherits all the non-destructive editing features it had in Project A.
To avoid Project B becoming unnecessarily large, it's important to Copy and Paste all the clips you want together. If you copy two clips at the same time that share the same file iMovie imports their source file just one time. But if you Copy and Paste two clips that share the same source file separately, iMovie imports the same file twice.
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Which application uses that file and prevents emptying the Trash?

Hi,
This has been with the OS for quite some time. Every once in a while, when trying to empty the trash, I get the error message:
"The operation can’t be completed because the item 'filename.estension' is in use."
How useless is that? Now, if OS X told me which application is using it, I could close that one application, delete the file, and get back to work. Sometimes, I can guess the application as the one I actually last used to access that file. But every so often, it's the Finder's "quick look," but every once in a while, I just haven't the clue.
So, is there an OS function (even if a UNIX/terminal command) or a utility that can tell me the application that is still using the file in the Trash?
Thanks, Tristan

Hi,
OK, to clarify: yes I use Lion (OS X 10.7.4) and I'd rather not close all applications. With Lion, I can just as well log out (which will close them) and log back in (which will reopen them). But, you realize that this is using a bulldozer to swat a mosquito: somewhere in the bowels of the OS X/UNIX, there is a "file in use" message from some application/process, which has not been cancelled (either because the application/process is really holding the file open or because the application/process has failed to clear the "file in use" flag).
A similar "feature" of OS X is when it prevents you from ejecting a volume because "it is in use." In that case, the "What's keeping me?" utility (by HAMSoft Engineering) comes to rescue, unearths the relevant culprit and reports it to the user. Yes, OS X should be doing it all by itself, but the 3rd party utility is just fine.
So, isn't there a way to unearth this info?

Deleted file wont show in the trash

Hi, i'm new to Arch and english is not my native, so please bear with me
I've installed Arch with Gnome 3 into my ThinkPad T520 with following configuration:
SSD formatted partitionless with btrfs filesystem.
I created 10 subvolume to organize my files.
mount /dev/sda /mnt/hdd
btrfs subvol list /mnt/hdd
ID 260 gen 2317 top level 5 path _snapshots
ID 263 gen 3757 top level 5 path _arch
ID 264 gen 3757 top level 5 path _home
ID 281 gen 3491 top level 5 path _documents
ID 283 gen 3538 top level 5 path _vms
ID 284 gen 3293 top level 5 path _tugas_sd
ID 285 gen 3158 top level 5 path _pictures
ID 286 gen 3683 top level 5 path _music
ID 287 gen 3224 top level 5 path _videos
ID 288 gen 3506 top level 5 path _software
ID 430 gen 2338 top level 5 path _snapshots/arch-2014-04-05
Then mount that sobvolumes to directory inside my /home
cat /etc/fstab
# UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 LABEL=arch
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 / btrfs rw,relatime,compress=lzo,ssd,space_cache,autodefrag,inode_cache,subvol=_arch 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home btrfs rw,relatime,compress=lzo,ssd,space_cache,autodefrag,inode_cache,subvol=_home 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Documents btrfs defaults,subvol=_documents 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Music btrfs defaults,subvol=_music 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Pictures btrfs defaults,subvol=_pictures 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Software btrfs defaults,subvol=_software 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Tugas\040SD btrfs defaults,subvol=_tugas_sd 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/Videos btrfs defaults,subvol=_videos 0 0
UUID=19ba2e27-6f2a-4410-a7ee-00c36f8bfa15 /home/iza/VMs btrfs defaults,subvol=_vms 0 0
All nice and well, except one thing. When i delete files originally locate in subvolumes but mounted to my /home, the files gone but not showing in the trash.
Instead, deleted files moved to hidden folder named .Trash-1000.
If that sound confussing, let me give an example, when i delete file from /home/iza then that file gone and showing up in the trash. But, when i delete a file from /home/iza/Documents then that file is gone but not showing in the trash but moved to /home/iza/Documents/.Trash-1000.
Is this a bug in btrfs or because my messy mountpoint/fstab?
Thanx

If you delete a file on a different partition; a .Trash-1000 (where the last part is your userid) directory is created (in the root of the partition); it will contain the file. Gnome should apparently traverse all partitions to merge all these files and show them in the 'Trash'; somehow that doesn't work. Can you check if a .Trash-1000 folder exists on all partitions you created? If they do, the problem is in Gnome not properly populating them.
The same issue is described here, without a solution unfortunately: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=40580 and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=785512
Last edited by Spider.007 (2014-04-06 11:29:25)

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I recently found several of my folders were emtpy. Out of desperation I looked in the Trash, and found that all my files are somewhat systematically being moved to the trash. All the files are MS (I use Office for Mac), including Adobe. Has anyone experienced this? What's the "fix"?

I found another thread discussing a problem similar to yours:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22613149#22613149 ("Files in my trash bin which I didn't put")
One of the people who responded, thomas_r., is a virus expert and has an excellent website -- thesafemac.com -- all about Macs and viruses. He did not think a virus would cause this.
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If you didn’t empty the Trash, drag them out.
If you have a backup of them, restore them from it.
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I deleted all my music files and then emptied the trash.. I didn't know that I wouldn't be able to play those songs in iTunes anymore.

I deleted my music files and then emptied my trash bin and later realized that I can't play the songs in iTunes anymore if the files are delted. Is there anyway I can recover all the files?

1) If you bought them from Apple you canprobably download them again.
2) If you back up your computer as you should, they will be on the backup.
3) If you stop using your computer this instant (because as you use the computer it overwrites deleted files even if you have lots of space), buy recovery software ($100+), there is a chance you can recover some of them, though they may have lost filenames and will be in quite a mess.

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