Due to a problem while zipping a large file I ended up with around half a million tiny files in my recycle bin. When I try to empty the bin the computer crashes after a while and after alerting me that it has not enough RAM.
I've tried several methods of emptying the bin, to no avail. I tried the following approaches:
- used tools like CCleaner, NirCMD and others;
- ran CMD as admin and tried
rd /s /q C:*recycl* > nul
which only lead to Windows telling me that the syntax would be incorrect; - tried
rd /s /q C:\$RECYCLE.BIN
which leads to Windows telling me that it can't find it; - selected show hidden objects in the Explorer since I wanted to delete the Recycle Bin there but I can't find it on any of my three drives.
I'm using Windows 10 64-bit by the way. Any help would be much appreciated!
RmDir /S "C:\RECYCLER"
it first loads the entire bin into RAM and then it crashes. So it never gets around to deleting it. I have around 30million json files in my recycle bin totaling to 55gb. The life of a data scientist