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| Renaming the "Trash" (pre OSX). | |
| Posted by: Solvalou on 2020-05-07 08:26:48 I've managed to find plenty of stuff on the net about doing this in OSX, but absolutely nothing on if it's also possible to rename it in a OS9 and before environment. Does anyone know of it's possible? Maybe I'm just being thick! | |
| Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-05-07 08:29:57 To my recollection, it is possible with ResEdit. It was in Macworld Mac Secrets. Let me check mine and I'll get back to you. | |
| Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-05-07 08:37:05 It appears that at least in versions of System 7 and 8, STR# resource 11750 is the name of the Trash. Replace it with whatever you want. | |
Posted by: dcr on 2020-05-07 08:40:45It appears that at least in versions of System 7 and 8, STR# resource 11750 is the name of the Trash. Replace it with whatever you want.Interesting to know. I never tried changing the name and on one system accidentally copy/pasted the icon which resulted in it never appearing "fat" when something was in the trash. Usually, I applied a blue label to the trash which made the trash can blue-ish which I thought looked better. 😉 | |
| Posted by: LaPorta on 2020-05-07 08:58:24 It's funny: I saw the blue trash thing back when a few times and wondered "why would anyone want to color the trash?" Then again, I never used labels at all. | |
| Posted by: Crutch on 2020-05-08 05:46:34 The answer to “how do I change [any arbitrary piece of text]” in Classic Mac OS will almost always be to poke around in the relevant application’s STR and STR# resources with ResEdit (or, for menu and dialog text, MENU and DITL resources), assuming the app is designed per Apple’s standard guidelines. Occasionally there is text lurking in a CODE resource, but that’s bad juju. | |
| Posted by: Solvalou on 2020-05-08 11:45:14 Pity it's so convoluted for such a basic thing. I think I'll leave it! :🙂 The reason I wanted to change it is because UK/European market System OS' are named as "Wastebasket", which I personally prefer. | |
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2020-05-08 16:57:36 Install the Grouch extension, and rename it to Oscar. 😀 | |
| Posted by: pax on 2020-05-09 11:02:13 Oh, those were the times. The lid was up when it was time to empty the trash. :lol:  | |
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