Mac OS 9: Visual QuickStart Guide

The Trash & Deleting Items

The Trash is a special place on your hard disk where you place items you want to delete. Items in the Trash remain there until you empty the Trash, which permanently deletes them.

To move an item to the Trash

1.	Drag the icon for the item you want to delete to the Trash icon on the Desktop.
2.	When the mouse pointer moves over the Trash icon, the Trash icon becomes selected (Figure 52). Release the mouse button. Figure 52. To move an item to the Trash, drag it there.

or

1.	Select the item that you want to delete.
2.	Choose File > Move To Trash (Figure 53). Figure 53. …or select the item and choose Move To Trash ...