TUAW Tip: The best way to add the Trash to your Finder sidebar

I think we've established that this tip consistently crashes on PPC?

I'm curious if anyone had issues on Intel though it's moot given that the tip is not permanent even when it does work.

SideTrash and the dot-Trash alias don't reflect the state of a Full Trash. And SideTrash will delete an original file instead of their alias.

I'd rather the drag-preview version over the dot-trash version just for the simple reason of seeing the Full Trash icon when full -- otherwise, big deal.

Oh dear oh dear!
2007-05-04 18:38:17 +0100

EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x80000197

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 CopyNodeRef + 24
1 0x1000 + 2424588
2 0x1000 + 1526804
3 0x1000 + 1522048
4 0x1000 + 1510752
5 0x1000 + 1647656
6 0x1000 + 58540
7 0x1000 + 56492
8 0x1000 + 56232
9 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*) + 692

It doesn't like that at all! Running a PowerBook here, latest OS.

This is a great way to restart the finder, everytime, without fail.
forget this, i just want a trash can on my desktop

I didnt have a chance to read every comment, so this may have already been told. I found out that the best way to use my trashcan in the sidebar is via an applescript application, I dont remember if I saw it here or at another webpage, but it is simple, since it is an actual app, you can drag it in or out when youre tired of it. I dont have my ibook with, so I cant check out the actual code (apologies for that).

Here's how I did it on mine (involves command prompt)

I have a ~/Scripts/ folder I put my handy dandy scripts and sometimes aliases in. I made one for the Trash.

cd Scripts/
ln -sf ~/.Trash/ Trash

(this creates a symlink from your Trash folder (.Trash) and creates a symlink to it called Trash in the Scripts folder

Using the finder, navigate to the Scripts folder, and drag the new Trash symlink to the sidebar.

Huzzah!

Erm, just use SideTrash?

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17686


Or am I missing something here?

I fourth the Cardwell/Macskeeball/laurahelde/Amott problem; crashes finder, leaves a blank placeholder whilst crashing... 10.4.9 PowerPC iBook G4 (latest)

another crash on 10.4.9 pbook g4

my finder crashes when i do it that way.
but if i do cmd+shift+g and type in ~/.trash and then drag the icon from the title bar into the sidebar it works. then it only has the folder icon. But if you do a cmd+i on the .trash folder and cmd+i after clicking on the trash icon you can copy the icon from the trash folder to the generic icon and it works.