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Your This is my solution to typing in the password every time link goes to the same Apple support document as your system Integrity protection link, so it's not surprising that Rita doesn't see a solution.

Look closer. I switched to a Magic Keyboard with Touch ID so all I have to do is touch the right key and voilá my password is entered automatically. [/quote] I went back to the link and found I had to click on more links to see that. So, now I see that. Thanks.

OK, before we go any further, it just occurred to me that if Get Info on your home folder shows you the equivalent of this, you shouldn't be able to write to any file in it, not just trash, but you haven't reported any other problems.

Please post a pic equivalent to the one I just posted.

You didn't give me your home folder. There should be a folder with your name on it under "Users." I need to see that one.

Does this look safe to do? Permissions

Open the screenshot in Preview, select your name, and hit "delete." (Your selecting your name should surround it with blue dots.)

Once I see that screenshot I can maybe figure out what your problem is, because at this point, I'm not sure I've got the slightest idea.

That post is from 2012, so I'm not sure if it's still pertinent if it ever was at all.

Let's get past that screenshot first.

I don't think the basic nature of the commands themselves change, but the files they target and/or their locations may.

I have an old friend who for the past thirty or so years has earned his living as a Unix system administrator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He does not use a word processor choosing to code his documents directly in PDF. His advice has always been to avoid using the Unix command line unless and until you are ready to retire and let your successor clean up the mess you are about to make.

LOL! Wow!

Back in the real world after having whittled a saga down to a sentence.

After reading that, I went back to your original post and realized that it was misinterpreted...that we've been on a wild goose chase.

Those with looong memories may remember that your problem is one that was reported with some regularity in the early days of OS X, and that its solution is, if my memory serves me, Method 1 in this doc (to which you've previously linked). (Method 2, which is incorrect, is the one that didn't work in your original post.)

Method 1
[Navigate to /Apps/Utilities/Terminal]
Type the following command replacing “your_user_name” with your user name [as it appears in Finder...case sensitive/no underscores].
You will need to enter your password and press Enter.
It won’t show any characters when you type.
If you do not have a password then set one first.

If you are presented with the following error: “No such file or folder” then do the following:
Type the following command:

Unless I'm mistaken, your problem is not permissions related, rather it's that you've lost ownership of your trash folder, and running that command should fix it.

Whatever it says next to the little house.

Be sure to get the spaces right...
sudo/chown...chown/your...name/~

I'm not authoritative about Terminal, but I don't see how this command can do anything you don't like.

The "chown" command simply changes the ownership of the targeted file, so it will either restore your lost ownership or just be a redundant affirmation of your existing ownership.