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Asked: 2026-05-10T19:52:08+00:00

Simply moving the file to ~/.Trash/ will not work, as if the file os

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Simply moving the file to ~/.Trash/ will not work, as if the file os on an external drive, it will move the file to the main system drive..

Also, there are other conditions, like files on external drives get moved to /Volumes/.Trash/501/ (or whatever the current user’s ID is)

Given a file or folder path, what is the correct way to determine the trash folder? I imagine the language is pretty irrelevant, but I intend to use Python

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  1. Alternatively, if you’re on OS X 10.5, you could use Scripting Bridge to delete files via the Finder. I’ve done this in Ruby code here via RubyCocoa. The the gist of it is:

    url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(path) finder = SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier('com.apple.Finder') item = finder.items.objectAtLocation(url) item.delete

    You could easily do something similar with PyObjC.

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