immediately deleted trash

Latest El Capitan on an external drive running and get the warning that the trash empties immediately when I have something to move to the trash.  I get no warning when El Capitan running off my internal Macintosh HD and the trash fills until I empty.  Is it a preference/s the I'm missing?

Visit The FAQ XLab and read the FAQ on the waste problems. You can also try using Trash it! 5.1 to solve the problem. Or you can try this:

Open the Terminal in the Utilities folder, and paste the following at the command prompt:

sudo rm - Rf ~ /. Trash

Press RETURN. Enter your administrator password when prompted. It will not echo to screen. Press RETURN again.

You need to run from the external drive as your boot volume.

(Someone should tell you that it is dangerous or useless, please disregard the comment.)

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