Manage files you send to the trash in an advanced way

If you usually have a lot of files in your Recycle Bin because you take it as a place where you have a lot of information that in principle you are not going to use anymore, but that sometimes saves you having a file there to be able to recover it, what I'm going to tell you in this article will interest you. 

There are times when, after having trashed a file, we want to restore it to its original location. For this we can go to the top menu of the Finder immediately after having deleted the file and click on undo delete. This action has a keyboard shortcut which is ⌘Z, if we want to use it.

In this way, if we delete three files in the same day, if we press three times in a row ⌘Z, the operating system interprets that you want those three files to be restored to their original location in the same order in which they were deleted. 

However. Suppose we want to restore a file that we sent to the trash for a long time and that if we did the ⌘Z we would restore before that many others. This does not compensate and it is that we would be taking many files to their original location that we may not want to have again.

In order to do this, Apple has another keyboard shortcut that consists of pressing ⌘ and the delete key on the keyboard when we have previously entered the recycle bin and we have selected the file to which we want to apply this action. Keep in mind that if we select more than one file that was originally in the same location, when you press ⌘ and delete key, all of them go automatically to that location. 

However, if we select several files to restore and each one of them came from a different location, they will not all go to their corresponding locations at the same time with a single press of ⌘ and the backspace key, but we will have to press several times to let the system do it with each one of them.


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