TrashEye

Simply a Trash Can on your Desktop

With my laptop’s small display, I have Dock-hiding always turned on; anyway the trash icon doesn’t show the file count and a quick Command-Option-D brings it back. Like many of you, I got used to the Trash Can on the Desktop with DragThing that I later replaced with Bin-it until the latter was also discontinued. Lately, I even tried iCollections’ Trash pane without much success. Some of you may have even know the original Mac OS 9 trash can!

However, all of these were not real-time, sometimes taking several seconds to refresh their content. If I remember correctly, Bin-it was even limited to the local Trash (i.e. the ~/.Trash folder). What’s more with my bad eyesight, I needed a big red badge for the total count (the typical Apple NSColor.red for badges), in order to not have to stare for long seconds at the icon to read its count. I am quite obsessive about not deleting something by mistake, and assume others are like me, that’s the reason for the big red badge.

What’s remarkable about TrashEye is its real-time refresh rate. It also has practically zero impact on both CPU and memory.

Features

• Sliding the switch to On in the Preferences window, displays a Trash icon in the bottom left corner of your Desktop
• A single click (left-click) on TrashEye’s icon opens the Bin folder
• Right-clicking on the Trash Can opens a contextual menu
• To reposition the Trash on your Desktop click the Reposition Trash menu item. This action will reveal its background view, allowing you to grab it and move it to your liking
• “Force Empty Trash” deletes locked files. It auto-detects if Touch ID is enabled for sudo and adapts its strategy accordingly
• Dragging items on to TrashEye’s Desktop icon adds them to the trash
• Dragging installer volumes to TrashEye’s Desktop icon ejects them