Trash Taking Forever in Snow Leopard?

Snow Leopard has been out to the public for a whole 5 days already and it seems that not everything is a peachy as some would expect. Me included.

I was tired of having to empty the trash overnight so that it would be empty by morning since it took forever to delete the 47,000+ items on some occasions. This issue, glitch, problem, what ever you want to categorize it as, seems to only be happening to upgrade installs. A clean install of Snow Leopard will not do this.

What is happening is SL is securely empty the trash by writing zero's over the data, 7 times! This is a mid-tier srm deletion that finder implements. There are 3 different levels of secure erase, only 1 is automatically done by finder, the other tw

o require terminal to implement. OSX uses srm to secure delete and it can be 1 pass, 7 passes, or 35 passes. 'srm -m' is the 7 pass.

Unless you have sensitive documents you wish to ensure proper deletion i would recommend to turn this feature off or suffer the hours it can take to empty your trash. To do this go to finder preferences and uncheck "Empty Trash Securely"