How Do I Remove the Confirmation Dialog When Deleting From a Network Drive?

Comments: 2 Responses to “How Do I Remove the Confirmation Dialog When Deleting From a Network Drive?”

Gary Rosenzweig

2 years ago

You have a few options. First, you can drag the file to the Trash in the Dock. Or, with the file selected, use Command+Delete as the keyboard shortcut. If you do that with a file on an external or shared drive then you get that confirmation. I would recommend sticking with that, as you don't have the safety of the Trash when using some shared drives, so I think this is also the case with your mysterious non-iCloud cloud drive.

A quick way to do this with just the keyboard is to press Command+Delete then Command+D when you see the Cancel/Delete dialog. So it is pretty quick.

Or, you could drag the file to the Trash, but hold the Option key down while doing it. This skips the dialog. This works for shared drives, so it may work for your mysterious non-iCloud cloud drive too.

zero

2 years ago

Thanks. Command D probably the best without using a mouse.