Posts Tagged ‘Trash’

A Freudian slip

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

ThrashingEvery now and then you run across something in NetNewsWire that makes you chuckle.

I love Mail.app to death, but I am willing to admit that its IMAP support is less robust than it could be.

So the clever irony of this Freudian slip in a blogger’s headline struck me at once:

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Sometimes Mail does frantically spin its wheels without getting anywhere. It needs a thrash folder.

However, the post he references on setting up Mail’s special IMAP folders for Sent, Drafts, Trash and Junk mail is excellent. Not knowing about this is a source of frustration to a lot of people on the Apple Discussion Boards and elsewhere.

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TrashMagic: Recover deleted files from the Trash

Monday, June 12th, 2006

trashmagic100pxObviously, few things are more harmful to your productivity than deleting files that you are working on by accident.

TrashMagic offers an additional back-stop. It keeps a cache of your Trash and allows you to recover files that you have deleted by accident or destroyed in a reckless spring-clean only to discover that you really do need them a week later.

The Preferences pane allows you to set the amount of space it may use for its cache, the length of time to keep files and more:

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The Data Recovery pane lists the files in the cache and offers you options to flush the cache permanently or recover individual files:

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An updated version (1.0.1) was released today which adds password-protection to the Recovery function.

The demo version will only recover files that have been deleted within the last five minutes, but still gives you a good sense of whether this is a life-saver for you or not.

Life-saving comes at a price. TrashMagic costs USD 49, making the most expensive piece of software ever to appear on Hawk Wings (except for FastMailBase).

Test-drive the demo and read more about its features on the developer’s web site .

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Destroy an email immediately in Mail.app

Friday, January 6th, 2006

macOSXHints returns from holidays with a simple but great tip.

You can delete an email permanently by pressing the keyboard shortcut for “Cut” — Command-X — when the message is highlighted in Apple Mail.

Makes sense when you think about it, but I’d never thought of it before. It also saves a second trip to the Trash to delete the messages again when you are spring cleaning.

Check it out; and read Rob’s cautionary footnote.

UPDATE: As David Chartier wisely points out on TUAW, bypassing the Trash like this mean that when the email is gone, it’s really gone.

However, if you realise you’ve done a stupid thing, the “paste” key (Command-V) will return the message from the clipboard to the mailbox, providing that you haven’t placed something else on the clipboard in the meantime. Whew!

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