Empty Downloads Folder

[rockitude]

Sick of accumulating a bunch of DMGs and other junk that you only needed to use once? This workflow cleans out your Downloads folder by moving everything that was in it to the trash. 

 

Empty Downloads Folder

[DJay]

Thanks rockitude.

Whats the difference to the command ?

mv ~/Downloads/* ~/.trash/

 

I was using this before.

 

And maybe you could include additionally a command to empty the trash in the same way by keyword?

 

At the moment I use 

rm -Rf ~/.Trash/*
afplay /Users/Daniel/Dropbox/Alfred' '2/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.3E5DC7E6-455E-4AFE-86BB-05954D9D1967/empty_trash.aif

 

 

As you can see I also use a custom Sound.

[Guest]

DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
rm -rf $DIR/*

DIR="$HOME/.Trash"
rm -rf $DIR/*

 

Because moving everything into the trash and then removing everything from the trash makes not so much sense, i cleanup both folders with the above script.