Turn Off Trash Sound Effects

The OS X trash is noisy. Add a file to it, and you’ll hear a “tish” sound, designed to indicate a piece of paper being thrown into the trash can. When- ever you empty the trash, you’ll hear the sound of paper being scrunched up (which is odd because should you empty the trash in real life, that’s not at all what you’d hear!). However, the sounds can be annoying if you’re playing music or in the middle of a voice/FaceTime call. To turn it off, open a Finder window, and type the following:

defaults write com.apple.finder FinderSounds -bool FALSE;killall Finder

To turn the sound on again at a future time, again open a Terminal window, and type the following:

defaults delete com.apple.finder FinderSounds;killall Finder