of users can access it simultaneously.

Trash Bag can be placed on an AppleShare file server, where any number





your other programs.

it’s an application, and not a system extension, it shouldn’t conflict with

Any Macintosh running System 7.0 or later can use Trash Bag.  Because








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don’t need it for a while; it’ll come back the next time you run Trash Bag.

that comes and goes in an instant.  You can trash the bag folder if you

memory taken up, just a little application in your Startup Items folder

There’s almost no cost to using Trash Bag — no system extension, no




xIt’s Simple









Trash (and ready to be deleted) after the next restart.

your bag folder instead, happy in the knowledge that they’ll be in the

operation stall as Finder alerts you to the problem.  Put these items in

the like.  Frequent Trash emptiers know the frustration of having the

file-sharing users, system extensions, mysteriously locked folders, and

try to empty it.  This includes files that are in use by applications or

Sometimes you want to delete things, but they clog the Trash when you




xNo More Trash Clogs!









folder.  Finder won’t let you open or print files that are in the Trash.

You can open or print a document or application directly from the bag




xYou Can Open the Contents







Trash.

you’ve committed to the changes, the old draft will be on its way to the

and think you may want to “back them out” later.  By tomorrow, when

This can be useful when you’re about to make some speculative changes





surprised!

temporary backup copy.  Try an Option-drag to the Trash, and you may be

In Finder, you can Option-drag any icon to your bag folder to make a




xAs Backup Folder







you just detached from another message into your bag folder.

electronic mail message.  Maybe you’ll also attach a spreadsheet which

temporarily — for example, a drawing which you’ll soon attach to an

This can be useful when you want to save your work, but only





dialogs.  The Trash is not accessible in this way.

Any application can write files to your bag folder using standard file




xAs Temporary Save Folder







flushed every time you start up.

a folder inside the bag folder) as the browser’s cache folder, and it’ll be

Trash Bag can improve this situation.  Set the bag folder (or, preferably,





it’s outlived its purpose.

the cache stays around after the browser has quit, and by the next day,

constrains disk cache consumption to a figure you select.  Unfortunately,

have noticed how these cache files can pile up.  Fortunately, the browser

If your Web browser is the kind that caches pages and images, you may




xAs Cache Folder







your Macintosh.

folder, and the files will be flushed to the Trash every time you start up

With Trash Bag, it’s no chore.  Set the bag folder as your download





Trash.

there with the rest of the detritus until you remember to take it out to the

After you’ve read the downloaded file or run it through a decoder, it sits

transfer and news reader applications let you choose a download folder.

for things that are temporarily important.  For example, your file

The Trash is fine for things you don’t need at all, but you also need a place




xAs Download Folder







Here are some reasons why Trash Bag is “better than Trash.”



it runs, it just empties the bag into the Trash.

To create the bag folder, just run Trash Bag once.  After that, every time





Trash icon.  Unlike the Trash, though, your bag folder is a real folder.

line your trash can — a folder that looks like a bag in front of your desktop

Startup Items folder.  It fights hard disk clutter by giving you a “bag” to

Trash Bag is a simple, transient application, designed to inhabit your








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