Section 9 - Deleting Files, Folders, Aliases

Deleting Files, Folders, Aliases

To free up space on your storage devices, old files, folders, and aliases should be deleted. You have already learned one way to do this. In Lesson 4 you learned how to drag an item to the trash and empty the trash. But if your desktop gets real busy and you cannot find the trash can, select the file, folder, or alias that you want to throw away and then select Move to Trash from the file menu.

In order to delete the items from your computer you must go the Finder Menu and select Empty Trash. A warning dialog will appear, click ok to empty trash.