Trash deletes immediately

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nuubie

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Recently when I went to delete a file in the Finder, I was prompted with a dialog box warning me that the file would be deleted immediately thereby not going into the Trash. When I delete off the desktop, it goes into the trash. My .Trash folder is in my user folder. I tried this Terminal fix:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060317195030935&lsrc=osxh
but it didn't seem to work.

This is really troubling as I have to be so careful now. I've played with Tinkertool but the relevant settings don't seem to help. I thought that perhaps something in Tinkertool had caused this.
 
first try going into tinkertools and restoring to defults or before using tinkertools, restart, then try deleting something. also are the files you are deleting on your hard disk? or a network conected drive on a diff computer? if soo then it will automatically delete thos since they are not on your compter.
 
hi there. this happened to me as well, and simply relaunching finder through the force quit pane solved the problem.
 
I found that setting the warning preference does not affect whether or not the trash files are immediately deleted. The warning simply states that the immediate deletion will occur. The relaunching of finder solved this problem for my main disk, and I haven't needed to try it for a trash folder stored on a networked or external drive.
 
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