There are more ways to manage the Mac’s Bin than you might think – sort its contents to your preferences
Long-time users of macOS may recall the days when the Bin, or Trash as it was called until 2019, had hardly any features. It stored deleted files, and you could recover them. There was little customisation and few features. Fast forward to today and the Bin is as fully featured as any other folder on the Mac’s drive.
The Bin grows as you delete files, and this makes it hard to find items you need to recover. You can customise the Bin’s view to make it easier to track down files that were accidentally deleted, change the text size, select a different view, and group files by their type, date or other attributes. Finding files has never been so easy.
Explore the Bin
Step-by-step
1 Get sorted
Open the Bin and if it does not open in list view, select it on the View menu. Click any column header to sort by that attribute and then click again to reverse the sort.
2 Add more columns
Ctrl+click any column header in list view to show a list of possible columns. Tick the ones you want. Add more date columns to make it easier to find deleted files.
3 Group Bin contents
In addition to sorting by dates, you can also organise the Bin contents by various attributes. Click the Group icon and select an attribute like ‘Date Added’ from the menu.
4 Sort and find
With the Bin contents grouped by date, click ‘Date Added’ to s
