A question I am often asked is how to remove and organize a Macintosh desktop by removing icons. With today’s pictures, videos, documents, and other forms of media available today, desktops can become increasingly cluttered and unorganized. Spotlight has really helped those messy individuals avoid straightening out their workspace, but having a better orgainized desktop can really help save time and make finding files quicker and faster.
You can easily remove or delete files in 3 basic ways.
1. Right click on the file you want to remove and select “Move to Trash”
2. Highlight (left click once) on the file you want to remove and go to File>”Move to Trash”
3. Highlight (left click once) on the file you want to remove and press “Command + BackSpace” on your keyboard to move it to the trash.
When you’re finished removing icons from the desktop, empty the trash. You can right click on the trash icon and select “Empty Trash”.
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And to empty the trash from finder, use Command + Option + Shift + Delete. Thanks for the post
Great post on a simple idea.
thank you, that was really helpful
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