OS X deletes all files and doesn't send them to the Trash first

Question

Recently I found that when I delete a file, it asks for my password and then it will delete the file permanently without going into the Trash first.

Any way to change that, so that I could retrieve the files in case if I delete something by mistake?

Answer 1

Try deleting and recreating your Trash. Open up a Terminal and enter:

rm -rf ~/.Trash

If that doesn't work, try the same with sudo – make sure you copy and paste this command exactly as it is, otherwise you're deleting every single file you own. You have been warned:

sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash

Finally, recreate the Trash folder:

mkdir ~/.Trash

Now we only have to restart Finder. Enter:

killall Finder

If that doesn't work, post the output of ls -laO ~/.Trash in your question.