Changing trash can icon mac

But worry not; you now have a way to add a Trash icon to the desktop on your Mac. Without using a third-party app, you can actually add a Trash icon on your desktop that will work exactly as it should. What you are going to do is create a symbolic link, symlink in short, to the Trash app on your desktop.

That way, the Trash will appear on your desktop. When Terminal launches type in the following command and press Enter. It will create a symlink for the Trash on your desktop. You can also drag and drop files onto it as you would do in the Dock. One thing you will notice about the Trash icon on your desktop is it looks like a normal folder. It is because it has been assigned the default folder icon by defaul.

It is just for appearance and does not interfere in the working of the Trash icon on you desktop. Now that the Trash is available on your desktop, you can drag any files you wish to delete and drop them onto the Trash icon on your desktop, and they will be removed from your Mac. It is exactly the same Trash you see in your Dock with the only difference being it is on your desktop.

If, for any reason, you would like to remove the icon from your desktop, then you can do so by dragging and dropping the icon onto the actual Trash located in your Dock. If you have been wanting Trash to appear on your desktop as it does on Windows computers, you now have a way to do that on your Mac without requiring any apps.

Just a single command, and the Trash will be added to your desktop. Mahesh Makvana is a freelance tech writer who's written thousands of posts about various tech topics on various sites.

He's been into the field for last eight years and hasn't spent a single day without tinkering around his devices. Now if you tell me how to set it up so I can see the Trash folder in Mail Mac that would be really handy.

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Thank you. Browser to the following location. When you get the contextual menu, choose "Show Package Contents". The contents of the Dock app will open in a new Finder window. Once there, open the Contents folder, and then open Resources.

The files are in here. You are looking for: trashempty. Make backups of these files before you edit them! In fact, making a copy of the Dock.

That way, you can just copy it back and replace everything that you change. Then, replace the files for the icons with new files of the same names. When you are done, restart the Dock.

Open Terminal, and type the following line, followed by the Return key. I just found this method somewhere else, and re-wrote it to be a little easier to understand, and so that it uses the Finder to do all the work. OK, so I tested the method I posted above. It worked. The only problem is that I noticed that my Trash sounds no longer work. Anyone know if that is a side-effect of the method above?