how to view all files on mac and drag to external

One more thing I want to show you about the Trash. You should empty the trash to make sure that that file is gone but at least you know if you make a mistake that file won't be accessible by anybody else. If you throw something away in the trash and then you give that drive to somebody else they can't get what's out of the trash and view it. You have to put it back in the same user and on the same Mac in order to recover that file out of the trash. There would be no way to recover it on that Mac. So, if I were to eject the drive now, stick it in another Mac you would not see this file anywhere. In order to see those trash items I need to put it back. When I did that it put it in the trash from the drive but it doesn't give permission for other users and other computers to see those items. Well I used this external drive on another Mac and I threw items from that Mac in the trash. There's actually more than this one item in the trash on this external drive. Now here's something else that's interesting. There's that item that's reappear there in the trash. Now if I reattach that drive it will reappear in the trash because now it's connected to that drive and there it goes. So disconnect one of those drives and those items disappear. But you'll only see the items for the drives that are connected. So if you have, say, an external drive, an internal drive, and maybe a USB thumb drive and you have items in the trash from all three of them you're going to see them in a big list here. So what you see as the trash is actually a list of files that are on any connected drives that you have thrown in the trash. It's in a special location on that external drive. Putting it in the trash doesn't move it to some trash folder on your local drive. That's because the file is still on that external drive. But if I eject the thumb drive you can see it goes away. If I look in the trash now with the thumb drive in there, there is the file in the trash and any other files that I would have thrown away on my main hard drive would be in here as well. That all makes sense.īut what happens if this is an external drive or a removable drive.

I can even Control click on it and I could say Put Back. I can click on the trash and there it is. But I know that it's still there in the trash. I'm going to drag a file here and I can dump it in the trash. Video Transcript: So here's something that seems pretty straight forward until you start to think about it. Check out How Mac Trash Handles External Drive Files at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.

How to view all files on mac and drag to external