With your file or files highlighted, you can use the keyboard shortcut Option-Command-Delete or open Finder's File menu and hold down the Option key, which changes the Move to Trash option to Delete Immediately. There are two ways to access the Delete Immediately command. But is Delete Immediately any faster than Move to Trash? Let's have a look. With OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Apple introduced a way to bypass the trash when deleting a file - Delete Immediately.
And then when you accidentally open the Trash folder and realize how many files you have stashed there, you go ahead and empty the trash. The tried-and-true method of deleting a file on a Mac is to drag it to the trash or right-click on the file and select Move to Trash.
