Questions tagged [recycle-bin]
The Recycle Bin in Windows is a place for deleted files, from where they can be restored or permanently deleted
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How to recover files from a corrupted recycle bin without 3rd party software?
Somebody asked me for help with recovering data from a drive. I'm not exactly sure what happened to it, but the person I got it from told me that the only thing they did was running file system error ...
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Change Recycling Bin Location
I have a SSD as a primary hard drive, and one HDD for storage. I want the recycling bin to be on the HDD. I want is so that even if I delete files from the SSD the end up on the HDD's recycling bin. ...
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Attempting to delete executable shows error that the file is in use by that same executable
I've been doing some C++ programming in Notepad++ and, seemingly randomly, updates to the code did not modify the output, so I opened it up in Windows' file explorer to delete the executable, however ...
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How to access another Windows 10 installation's Recycle Bin files on a partition?
I had an old HDD with Windows 10 on C drive (let's call it Old Windows) and media files on D drive. I deleted 5GB of files from old D drive which would of course go into the hidden Recycle Bin folder ...
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Recycle bin fills with temp files
I have windows 10 pro installed in my PC. My recycle bin has started to fill up with a same-named file called, tempOTAupdate. Despite I delete them over and over, they keep filling the bin. Windows ...
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External HDD no longer asks to "recycle" deleted files, only deletes permanently
EDIT: Solved by restarting computer (cue rolling eyes)- it's strange that it worked the second time I did this, but not the first. Ah well, question can be considered closed.
I'm on Windows 10, and ...
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Windows - Can't delete folder from Recycle Bin and it won't restore
Chain of events:
Empty Recycle Bin silently fails. Tried it repeatedly.
Selected ranges of items in Recycle Bin and deleted them (some didn't work), narrowing down until only one item was left: a ...
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Why do files deleted with the command prompt not end up in the recycle bin?
Also, is it possible to recover files deleted with the cmd prompt?
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Is there any way to put my whole Recycle Bin on one hard drive? [duplicate]
Using Windows 10, I notice that each drive on my system has its own recycle bin. Is there any way to override this behavior and put the entire recycle bin on one drive, e.g. a hard drive, so as to ...
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Deleting a file from a folder gets stuck
I'm trying to delete a .zip file from my Downloads folder, but when I click on it to delete it I get this message:
And nothing happens. I let it sit for an hour and nothing is going on.
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Why do permenantly deleted files in Windows take up data and not disappear?
So with permenantly deleted files, I expect them to be marked off as raw data and disappear forever, to be overwritten eventually. But then, why do they not disappear in 7zip?! They even supposably ...
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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 to delete or restore 1.4 mil files from Recycle Bin?
Recently, due to a runaway process, some 1.4 milion small files (around 8 Kb) were generated and moved to Recycle-Bin. What would be a convenient way to restore some of the files and permanently ...
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Recycle Bin on SSD
How often should I empty the recycle bin on an SSD? Should I let it completely fill up the hard drive first? I am on Windows 7 with TRIM enabled drive.
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Windows: Make space in Recycle Bin by removing existing old stuff, instead of "Too big too delete"?
When a file or folder is too big for recycle bin, Windows offers File too big for Bin, permanently delete?.
The Bin may contain old stuff that is taking space and could be deleted to make room for ...
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Why does Windows 10 move desktop files to the recycling bin?
I set up a family account for my daughter on Windows 10. She wrote a bunch of Word files and saved them on the desktop.
The following day they were all missing. We found them in the recycle bin.
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My secondary HDD starts up whenever I enter Recycle Bin and some folders
I have two SSDs for Windows and programs (C & E), and two HDDs for storage (D & F). Whenever I go into Recycle Bin that is located on C, the D HDD starts up (i.e., spins up). Even when it's ...
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Emptying recycle bin frees more space than expected
On a Windows 2016 server I emptied the recycle bin which (I thought) held about 100GB.
Parts of the disk (1.5 TB drive) are used as shares and historic versions is on.
After emptying the bin I ...
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Does cancelling the deletion of a folder restore files in the folder that were deleted?
I accidentally clicked delete on a folder full of personal photos. Before I was able to hit cancel, the message below the progress bar was showing that some files had already been deleted. The recycle ...
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Which folder is recycle bin in on Win7? How to check files there?
I was using another account before. Let me call it account A. And I deleted a lot of files to the Recycle Bin at that time. But before I removed account A I forgot to empty the Recycle Bin.
My ...
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Recycle bin weird behavior
this morning my colleague called me to check his recycle bin, his recycle bin has many files and he does not know anything about the files and how they got into his recycle bin.
After small ...
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How do i restore files from the recycle bin of an external hard disk drive
Before i removed the hard drive of my PC to make it external, i moved a
folder to the recycle bin. I have a $Recycler.bin folder that contains 5 folder and 2 files. Now that the hard drive is ...
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How to import "RECYCLER" folders into Windows?
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If I connect a HDD to my PC, how can I import the RECYCLER folder into Windows XP?
In other words: How can I tell Windows XP to include the content of D:\RECYCLER\ in the recycle bin?
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Why does Windows 10 take so long to empty the recycle bin
I just recently upgraded my system and my new motherboard only has drivers for Windows 10 so I had to upgrade my OS at the same time from Window 7 Pro 64bit to Windows 10 Pro 64bit (1809).
While ...
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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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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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Delete files from shared folder
I am trying to safely delete files from a shared folder hosted on the server. However the file doesn't move to the recycle bin when deleted because I'm not the owner. How do I force the file to be ...
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Recover large amount of files from Recycle Bin in OneDrive
I have an account for OneDrive for Business through my university email. Slightly more than one month ago I deleted some files by mistake, and of course, I just noticed it.
I now found all the files ...
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Corrupted Recycle Bin?
I used a freeware duplicate removal tool called "dupeGuru" to remove some duplicates. It does not have an option to just delete the files, only an option to "move selected files to recycle bin." The ...
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OneDrive and Recycle bin
I am a bit confused on how OneDrive and deleted items work.
I've my desktop synched, and when I delete an item it goes to my Windows 10 Recycle bin (and also OneDrive Recycle bin).
If I log on to ...
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Getting the restore location of an item inside the Recycle Bin, prior to restoring
I have a folder named src in the Recycle Bin. The context menu gives the option to restore, but it gives no hint about the location where the item would be restored to.
Is there any way to find that ...
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Some files still remain in $RECYCLE.BIN
I ran a scan with SpaceSniffer and WinDirStat and noticed that there are over 11 gigs of files stored in $RECYCLE.BIN and when I open it, all the folders inside show 0 bytes. My recycle bin is empty ...
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What does C:\$RECYCLE.BIN contain? [duplicate]
When I visit the C:\$RECYCLE.BIN on Windows 10, I can see not only a link to the Reycle Bin but also two other directories, which I cannot access. Upon taking ownership of one of the directories and ...
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Retrieve all the deleted files
I deleted all the PDF files from the desktop with the command
find . -name '*.pdf' -delete
Is there an option to get them back? I look into the recycle bin and seems
they are not there. I will ...
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How can I index recycle bin?
How can I index recycle bin?
(There were so many instructions that I didn't ask and already know. So I edited everything out to focus on the subject.)
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How can I set a time limit on the Recycle Bin?
How can I set a time limit on Windows 7 Recycle Bin?
What is the Recycle Bin?
The Recycle Bin in Windows 7 Starter is a file to restore deleted
files. They are kept there indefinitely.
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Q: Windows 10 Recycle Bin icon "glitch"?
ICON:
BIN WINDOW:
ICON SETTINGS:
PROPERTIES:
This happened few days ago. I've checked every fix out there and they don't seem to fix this issue
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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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Why is Windows using all RAM for deleting files?
I have a huge backup archive on a secondary hard drive that I'm deleting right now. After hours of progress in the delete dialog windows is now stuck on 99% and is filling up my RAM. Interestingly the ...
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Accidentally deleted torrent on uTorrent
So I've been downloading this torrent for 3 days now, its 180GB and instead of pause I somehow clicked delete torrent+data. The data and torrent is in the recycle bin still. How do I get them back to ...
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Deleting Files from CMD or Powershell and Recycle Bin
When using command prompt or Powershell and the Remove-Item, del, or RD, why don't the items you delete end up in the recycle bin?
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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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How do I open a recycled file from cmd?
if you DIR /a /b /s C:\$Recycle.Bin You will find some regular files, and some that have been turned into "info files" that look like $RT58F.png. If you go into the explorer they are shown as their ...
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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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what is the path of the recycle bin directory? [duplicate]
I dragged a file to the recycle bin a few days ago. I have Windows 7 premium on a 245 GB partition, a 240 GB SSD, and a 250 SSD. And somewhere in the past few days I incidentally installed Delta ...
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Cleanly remove a Recycling Bin on a partition planned for deletion
I have an old partition on disk I plan to remove from the system and it still has a recycling bin folder with files in it. I can see this from a Linux installation.
I guess Windows creates a ...
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How to see the original path of a file in the recycle bin?
When right clicking a file in the Recycle Bin I can't see what file path that file originally had. Since Windows must know the original file path (how else would it be able to restore the file to it's ...
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External hard drive and Recycle Bin behavior
When my Seagate external hard drive is plugged in, its $RECYCLE.BIN folder automatically contains all the files contained in the Recycle Bin of the PC. Is it true that actually we don't have any ...
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Recycle bin and External HDD [duplicate]
When I plug in my Seagate external hard disk, it has a folder named $RECYCLE.BIN which is empty. Its been fine upto now.
Now when i delete a folder from my Desktop of my PC, the folder goes into the ...
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