Stack of Your Trash

Hey guys, this is Matt kids.

On today, I'm going to be showing you how to make a stack of your trash. Now you might be wondering what this is. Well, on your dock, you might notice that you have this trash icon, but you can't see if you have anything in your trash. What's in your trash? For instance, say I go into here and I were to delete this, I would still see the trash talk and there would be just little thing that says there's something in my trash.

So, say I want it to actually show me what's in my trash, just like on a regular stack. Here's all you have to do: you need to download our application for Mac called Finder. If you don't have this currently, we will have a link in the description of the video to download it. It has been made in Java, so it should work on Power PCs as well as Intel Macs.

Once you open up Finder, it has a CD icon, and it's done launching. You can select show; it'll quit and you'll see a few extra icons on your desktop. So, I'm just going to open a new Finder window and go into my home folder.

Now you want to find a folder called dot trash. So, it's right here. Now all you need to do is drag that into your dock right next to your trash icon. There we go! Now there's nothing in it, so it shows as a folder icon.

But anyway, I'm going to go back into Finder and click hide again because now the job is done. So, in Finder, instead of clicking show, I'm going to click hide, so now I can't see those junk files anymore.

So now on my desktop, on my dock, is this extra folder called dot trash. Currently, it doesn't have anything in it. So, let's say I throw something out. So, right here I have a file on my desktop called junk.doc, so it's a Word document that I don't want. It's junk, so I'm gonna click it and drag it into my trash like normal.

So now, right here in this dot trash stack, I see a preview of everything in my trash. If I say open with Finder, I may select empty to empty my trash. To get rid of the dot trash thing in your dock, just click it and drag it off like that.

That's how to take your trash folder and put it into your dock so that way you can get a preview of your trash. Thank you for watching Macades101. Please subscribe and goodbye!