What are the $Recycle.bin folders and their contents on each HDD despite the recycle bin being empty?

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I can actually shift+delete them -- What are these, some of them are huge.

This is on Windows Server 2008

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psusi · Answer 1 · 2011-01-13 00:21:35Z

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They are the recycle bins of other users.

answered Jan 13 '11 at 0:21

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Ahh that makes a lot of sense; it's what I was thinking actually. – Matt Jan 13 '11 at 0:54

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