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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Why would Windows Defender pop up when I try to empty the recycle bin in Windows 10?
Something I've never seen before: when I open up the recycle bin and use Recycle Bin Tools -> Empty Recycle Bin from the menu, I get a Windows Defender popup with the following text:
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Is emptying the Recycle Bin slow on purpose?
Why is it that, upon trying to delete multiple GB of files from my Recycle Bin, it's extremely slow and always 'discovering files' but, upon using a command such as the del command below, it's ...
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Opening recycle bin takes 30 minutes or so on windows
I am on windows 10 with an SSD (the desktop is around 7 years old) - basically when I try to open my recycle bin it takes upwards of 30 minutes, and often just hangs. I am deleting a significant ...
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Is there a PowerShell, Batch, or VBS script that can automatically pin the recycle bin to the start menu?
The recycle bin doesn't show up when you type it into the start menu which seems incredibly moronic. I am able to create a shortcut and pin it to the start menu so it shows up, but I'd like to ...
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Automatically clean Windows recycle bin files & folders if they originated from a certain directory
How to automatically clean Windows recycle bin files & folders if they originated from a certain directory?
Context: I'm syncing with an App from my mobile phone to OneDrive. If the file gets ...
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How Do I add a RecycleBin to a newly formatted NTFS flash drive
New thumbdrives often come formatted as FAT or FATex drives. When I reformat them as NTFS drives, the RecycleBin is gone. How do I add it back in?
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Size of users' recycle bins on Windows Server 2019?
Is there a way to show the size of a recycle bin for each user in Windows Server 2019?
(Or, perhaps, calculate such sizes via PowerShell and then display them in a neat table?)
We may have runaway ...
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In VSCode remote ssh, how to change the right-click delete action in File Explorer from permanent deletion to moving files to the Recycle Bin?
I connect to remote server by ssh on vscode.
The right-click delete action in File Explorer will permanently delete files of remote server.
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Restoring files from deleted users $Recycle.bin
I'm stuck on a problem that I feel shouldn't be so hard to crack, but I can't find a good solution for it.
I was handed a user's Windows 10 VM. For some reason, the original domain user account got ...
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What happens when a file in the D: drive that is larger than the free space in the C: drive is deleted?
So imagine there is 100MB of free space in the C: drive, where the recycle bin is held. If I want to delete a file that is 1GB located in the D: drive, what happens? Is the recycle bin like any other ...
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Is it safe to delete the stuff in the folder "$Recycle.Bin" on each drive?
I have been regularly cleaning up my computer and noticed a folder named "$Recycle.Bin" on each of my drives. I understand that this folder is used for the recycling feature on Windows, but ...
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How to transfer recycle bin to new computer
I am currently running in Windows 10. I'm getting a new computer running Windows 11. I'd like to continue to have access to my current recycle bin on the new computer. Is there a way to transfer the ...
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Why does `ls 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\'` show nothing?
I have a lot of files in Recycle Bin, yet using either ls 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\' or Get-ChildItem 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\' in PowerShell 7.1.5 there is no result. Do you know why?
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PowerShell, add the Recycle Bin to Quick access
I would very much like to add the "Recycle Bin" to the "Quick access" area of File Explorer using PowerShell (as this is a standard thing that I like to have on all new systems). ...
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Why previous file that has been replaced to new file is not in recycle bin Windows 11?
In Windows whenever we replace some file with new file Windows deletes the old version file permanently. We don't have option to undo the changes, that file is not in recycle bin and even there are no ...
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Recycle Bin only permanently deletes file [duplicate]
Even though the Recycle Bin is not set to permanently delete the files, whenever I delete a file, it is permanently deleted, it does not matter the file size. Prompt asks whether I want to permanently ...
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Fastest and easiest way to recover large amount of specific files from Windows Recycle Bin
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I am using Windows 10. Due to a file sync error I deleted over 11,000 files. They are now in the Recycle Bin. I have tried selecting the files I want to recover and recovering through the ...
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Save Recycle Bin view settings - Win 10
I want to always display deleted items sorted by Date Deleted (I am using detailed view). But whenever I open Recycle Bin it auto sorts by Name. When I sort it by Date Deleted and close the window, ...
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Access Recycle Bin from the Explorer window [duplicate]
How can I access the Recycle Bin from the Explorer window?
Many times I have a lot of windows open and do not wish to minimize them just to get to the Recycle Bin so Win+D is not desired.
I know I can ...
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No Recycle Bin in new partition
I have an old computer with Windows 8.
I had the OS partition C, and a data partition D.
I shrank C, making some 80Gb room between C and D.
I created one more partition with Disk Management -> ...
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How can I delete a file that is in $RECYCLE.BIN but not in my recycle bin?
On an external drive the $RECYCLE.BIN folder has files in it, but according to Windows the recycle bin is empty. Looking at the $RECYCLE.BIN folder with WizTree I think some are files from when the ...
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Deleted files from F: drive not ending in Recycle Bin anymore; all other partitions work normally
I am running Windows 11 on an Acer E5 575G laptop. My F:\ drive did send deleted files to recycle bin until one week ago. If I safe boot, the F:\ recycle bin works fine but not under normal boot. All ...
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$Recycle.Bin Appeared in Onedrive - How do I stop syncing nightmare?
Onedrive is a pain, but for various reasons I'm stuck with it.
Sometimes it hammers my laptop HDD just scanning for changes. I figured it's deep nested directories that really does it in. A month ago ...
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How to add Recycle Bin as a toolbar in taskbar in Windows 10?
I have been trying to add Recycle Bin to my taskbar through toolbar settings but it is just showing me an error.
Just for the context (i.e. if the problem is because of this), I removed the name of ...
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Where Windows store the files which are deleted during Ctrl+Z operation in folder in which the photos has been copied in?
I connected my Android to Windows 10 and cut-pasted all the pictures from Android into my C:/AndroidMedia/Pictures_2021_07_22 folder. I disconnected Android (which had free memory, of course) and I ...
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How will Windows treat the presence of the "$RECYCLE.BIN" folder on a volume if it's not hidden
So - here's the situation. I've recently been working on a hard drive backup that was copied from a failing drive to a replacement - specialised lab recovery software was used to perform this task. ...
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Files not deleting to Recycle bin from External Hard Drive - Windows 10
I recently realized that deleting files from my Toshiba External drive (E:), deletes permanently instead of going to the Recycle bin (I get the message to "permanently delete the files") Not ...
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Is it possible to delete files to Recycle Bin using Windows command line? [duplicate]
When deleting files from the Windows 10 command prompt is there a way to have them go to the Recycle Bin so they can be undeleted if necessary?
I know MS-DOS had this ability long ago, but it does not ...
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Understanding the Windows recycle bin
When I delete a large folder it takes time for it to be put into the recycle bin. And when I move that item back to where it was, it seems instant. I would like a deeper understanding on how this is ...
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Recycling bin folders turn into files?
What does this mean? When I try to delete folders in recycling bin, this is what I get, and I can't delete them:
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Sharepoint Recycle Bin Searching
Helping out with (small) company IT. Everyone using Office365, Sharepoint, OneDrive. The level of tech savvy is not high among users. People often deleting files, which I then need to find/restore. ...
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How could I recover a file from Recycle Bin with CMD?
I have a file in $Recycle.Bin which its metadata points out a non-existent drive on the system and a path - .......E.:.\.D.e.s.k.t.o.p.\.F.i.l.e...t.x.t how could I potentially recover that File.txt ...
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How to use registry to disable $Recycle.Bin for all users on all drives and display delete confirmation box by default in Windows 10 20H2?
Quick summary: I am a tinkerer and I hate to click through the GUI, I don't need $Recycle.Bin so I want to disable it by using Set-ItemProperty to modify registry.
As in title, I want to use regedit....
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Windows 10 files disappear from recycle bin
I needed to delete a couple of folders. I deleted 2 of them, accidentally deleted a file I was not going to, went to the bin, restored the file, went back to deleting the folders, finished it, decided ...
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How to restore contents of recycling bin to different folder AND retaining original folder structure
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After deleting lots of sets of files with the same name to recycle bin over time, one can lose track of what they have deleted and want to review them.
It seems that Windows recycling bin ...
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move files on a network folder into Recycle bin via cmd
My goal is to move some files into recycle bin using a cmd file. I've done that with Cmdutils/recycle and it works great when files are stored on my computer (windows 10). Unfortunately those files (...
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Why do files with multiple hard links lose 'Authenticated Users' read/write access (and how to make not happen)?
After playing with hard links on a test Win7 system after receiving a fantastic answer by community member Pimp Juice IT to another question (Is there a clever way to group a bunch of files together ...
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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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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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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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How to delete all the open files in notepad++
I have opened many files in notepad++ window tabs. Is there any way(or any plugin) in npp to quickly delete all the open files?
I don't want to go to each tab, right click and use Move to Recycle ...
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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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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 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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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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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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How to decode file names in $Recycle.Bin
When I list files in the $Recycle.Bin folder, the deleted files have file names that look like:
C:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-21-3704213190-1981809790-211521205-1000\.���000200000008af358fa920f8faa779cf
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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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