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Cannot find file and folder $RECYCLE.BIN in windows 7
I have recovered a deleted file Episode2.wmv. In recovery software it was showing it in folder $RECYCLE.BIN\SOME-STRANGE-LONG-FOLDER-NAME\Episode2.wmv. I recovered it on root c:\ but I am unable to ...
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How do i tell the recycle bin to delete files older than X days?
How do i tell the recycle bin to delete files older than X days? I tried writing a program to do it but it seems like a lot of trouble (to bad it isnt just simply checking access time). I found ...
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Renaming any folder to Recycle bin showng the new name and the CLSID code
I use this code in bat file to convert (rename) folder into Recycle bin:
ren myfolder Recycle.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
The folder showed as Recycle bin and act like one, the only ...
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Black GUI with minimal desktop icons appeared after powering on my desktop PC
My computer powered on fine but after POST, a dialog box appeared with a red "X" and it gave some sort of warning. It had a long file name, I cannot recollect the entirety of it but it was something ...
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How to open the Recycle Bin from the Windows command line?
How do I open the Recycle Bin from the command line?
I'd be very glad if there is a built-in Windows command.
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Is there any way to move files scanned by CCleaner to recyle bin?
Is there any way to move files scanned by CCleaner to recycle bin ? Deletion/Erase by CCleaner is very slow .
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Windows 7 cross-volume symlinks affecting recycle bin
Related to this question but not identical.
Scenario:
C:\Folder\Symlink\ is a symlink pointing to E:\Folder\Folder\Target\
Problem:
Deleting a file through C:\Folder\Symlink\* bypasses the Recycle ...
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What does the Recycle Bin do?
What does the Recycle Bin in Windows actually do? Is it just a glorified folder and a holding place for soon to be deleted files, or does it do something specific? Specifically, are files that are ...
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How can I prevent Windows from spinning up all drives when I delete something?
When I delete something Windows spin up all sleeping hard drives. Even those totally unaffected by the procedure.
Is there a way of preventing this, or it's just a Windows bug?
(Using Windows 7 ...
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Why does the recycle bin icon on the desktop appear full even though the recycle bin is empty?
On Windows XP, I've noticed that sometimes the recycle bin icon on my desktop appears full even when there are no files in it. If I right click on the recycle bin or open it and go to the file menu, ...
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Is Windows 7 capable of Automatic Purging of Old in the Recycle Bin? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What happens when the Recycle Bin uses up its allocated space?
Is Windows 7 capable of Purging the recycle bin Automatically, by removing the oldest deleted items? YES ...
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Recycle bin has subfolder with 2GB of files that I cannot delete
Windows 7
I run TreeSize on my c:\ drive and it reports that my Recycle bin has 2GB of files in it (in a subfolder).
My desktop recycle bin icon shows that my bin is empty. I even try creating a ...
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Why does external HDD have a working Recycle Bin?
I have just purchased a new external portable HDD - Buffalo MiniStation 500GB, USB 2. I am using it on Windows XP Home SP 3. The drive is pre-formatted with FAT32.
I notice that when I delete ...
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Windows 7: Is there a shortcut to deleting files without sending them to recycle bin?
After searching the internet for a while, I get a mix and match of "permanently change it through recycle bin properties" or other incorrect info such as "hit SHIFT+DEL". I am hoping there's a quick ...
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Accidentally copied a gigantic E:\$RECYCLE.BIN directory from one external hard drive to another. Need to delete it
Ran SyncToy to sync E: to F:. Before I stopped it, SyncToy managed to copy $RECYCLE.BIN from E:, which is gigantic. I emptied my Recycle Bin but F:'s didn't delete. Haw can I manually delete it?
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How to quickly empty a very full recycle bin?
I have deleted about half a million files from a folder, and didn't think to press Shift in order to delete them completely straight away.
Now they're clogging my recycle bin, and Windows claims it ...
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Where are files in the Recycle Bin stored, in respect of partitions?
I understand that the Recycle Bin is shared amongst local drives (partitions). When a file is "deleted" and sent to the Recycle Bin, does the file itself stay on the partition it was in prior to ...
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Why are two files reported in RECYCLER when recycle bin is empty?
I have emptied the Recycle Bin. However, when I right-click on the RECYCLER folder on drive C and select Properties, it says "Contains 2 files, 1 folders". I see a folder in there with a random ...
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Windows 7 C:\$Recycle.Bin [closed]
Where can I find out more information on the C:\$Recycle.Bin file in windows? Besides the wikipedia article, I'm trying to find a good source from Microsoft or Technet, etc.
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My recycle bin is empty, but my $RECYCLE.BIN folders are not. Why?
I have 2 drives on my windows 7 machine. C and D. C is my main drive with the OS, D is a media drive where all my downloads and rips go.
My recycle bin is empty, but right now the C:\$RECYCLE.BIN is ...
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Can I attach file from the Recycle Bin?
I was giving a lecture to some students, and they asked about why you are unable to attach a file from the Recycle Bin to an email using Gmail, Yahoo!!, Outlook, etc.
I am using Windows 7, and try to ...
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why can't move file to recycle bin?
i'm using windows xp,
my computer suddenly goes weird and crazy,
usually when we select a file and press delete key, an alert dialog will appear asking whether the file should be moved to recycle ...
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Where is the recycle bin in Finder on Mac OS X?
At the bottom of my screen there is the recycle bin. Is there someway to unpin it from there?
By the way, where is the recycle bin in Finder?
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Setting Windows 7's Recycle Bin to automatically have a default disk space allocation for deleted files from newly mounted drives
How do I set Windows 7's Recycle Bin to automatically have a default disk space allocation for deleted files from external hard drives and TrueCrypt-mounted volumes?
I remember in Windows XP, I can ...
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Recycle Bin on SSD drive
How often should I empty the recycle bin on a SSD drive? Should I let it completely fill up the hard drive first? I am on windows 7 with TRIM enabled drive.
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How to fix Windows 7 always delete file permanently
I am using a laptop from my company, installed with Windows 7. I found that I cannot delete the files to Recycle Bin. The files will always deleted permanently without going to the Recycle Bin.
I am ...
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How can I stop $RECYCLE.BIN from being created (or hide it) on network drives/folders?
I have a Windows 7 desktop which has 3 drive mappings to CIFS shares on a FreeBSD home server. There are also special folders (Desktop, etc) stored on the CIFS shares.
Each of these (including the ...
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Open items in recycle bin without restoring
I just noticed that I can open folders from the recycle bin without restoring them. I have the qttabbar extension that adds tabs to the standard windows explorer and I accidentally middle-clicked a ...
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are the contents of the Windows Recycle Bin compressed?
When things are in the Windows Recycle Bin (Windows Server 2003), are the contents compressed?
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What are the $Recycle.bin folders and their contents on each HDD despite the recycle bin being empty?
What are the $Recycle.bin folders and their contents on each HDD despite the recycle bin being empty?
I can actually shift+delete them -- What are these, some of them are huge.
This is on Windows ...
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Recycle bin on substed drives
I've created a substed drive on Windows 7. When I delete a file, it doesn't go to the recycle bin, instead it is deleted permanently.
Recycle bin properties do not show this drive at all.
Any hack ...
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Recover temporary files
I was in the middle of creating a document when MS Word crashed.When i restarted ,it asked me what i wanted to do with some temporary file,to which i answered delete.But unfortunately it was the ...
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using junctions and moving the Recycle Bin to the right partition
I have got two partitions on a PC running Windows XP:
C: system partition
D: data partition
Usually every user has got his user profile on
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>
But I have moved ...
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Clear Recycler on C: with Command Line
I'm looking for a simple Batch which clears all files/folders in my Recycler on Volume C: and under Windows 7 x64.
DEL C:\Recycler\*.*
I thought this is a good try, but no success.
The way over ...
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Empty Recycle Bin error “Cannot Delete Dc12: Access denied.”
The Dc number can vary. The error is a sporadic, but when it happens it prevents the contents of the recycle bin from being deleted. It can also occur when the recycle bin appears to be empty, yet it ...
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Empty recycle bin on E: drive
I'm trying to free up some space on the E: drive of a particular machine. In WinDirStat, I see $RECYCLE.BIN there is taking up 10+ GB, so I'd like to empty it. Seems simple enough!
I can't seem to ...
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Windows 7: How to display the total size of Recycle Bin
On Windows XP, the total size of Recycle Bin could be seen easily, but I can't see it on Windows 7. Why did Microsoft hide/remove this feature? Am I missing something?
REMARK 1: I don't need to see ...
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How do I fix my recycle bin that doesn't show the deleted items?
The icon shows that it's full. I just deleted stuff, so I know that it's full. But when I open it, it doesn't show the deleted items. The only option I have is to restore them or empty them.
Help me ...
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how to restore files deleted in the Mapping virtual drive
I used psubst drive1: drive2:path /P to create the persistent virtual drive, I found that's greate, but when I delete files in those drives, they didn't appeared in the Recycle Bin, so How can I ...
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Any way to get the size of all the files in the recycle bin in Windows 7?
Any way to get the total size of files in the Recycle Bin in windows 7 without having to Select All and hit Properties or More Details? This was available in the Status bar in XP, is there any add-in ...
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Windows XP Delete File Option
When I go to delete files in XP, it's deleting them directly. I had my machine recently reimaged, and this feature changed (no longer says are you sure you want to do this). Where does the ...
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How do I (properly) access another users' recycling bin without logging in as him?
I am using Windows 7 daily as a limited user with UAC enabled. I log in as $USER and have have a dummy user called $ADMIN with Administrative access I use for elevation purposes.
Unfortunately, some ...
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The significance of the hidden $RECYCLE.BIN folder of drives in Vista
I notice this directory in both my internal and external HDs that I use in Vista. Is this linked to the Recycle Bin functionality of windows? Will windows still operate properly if I deleted it?
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File delete history in Windows XP
Is there a way I can view a list of files that the user has recently deleted, assuming they have already been removed from the recycle bin?
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How to “delete” the Recycle bin from the Desktop .. (I don't want to edit the registry )
Although I have found this question here in Super-user .. But I am not satisfied with answers there .. I have XP operating system .. Is there any secure way to hide recycle bin from desktop .. I find ...
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How to remove recycle bin icon from desktop?
Is it possible to remove the recycle bin icon on desktop?
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How do I get Windows 7 to NOT use the recycling Bin on a removable drive?
How do I get Windows 7 to NOT use the recycling Bin on a removable drive? I've already told Windows to not use the function on that drive but Windows still creates the "Recycling Bin" folder. It stays ...
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What happens when the Recycle Bin uses up its allocated space?
I usually can't stand when there's something in the recycle bin. I almost always "right-click > Empty Recycle Bin" when I see the "full" icon. But I also hate it when I emptied it too early and there ...
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I cannot empty my Recycle Bin
When I try to empty my Recycle Bin, I get the following error:
Cannot remove folder [folderName]. The directory is not empty.
Any idea what's going on here?
