2 folders in Recycler

[Larry(LJL269)]

All my partitions have 2 folders in Recycler:
(1) S-1-5-21-3936860944-2075014391-284059253-1005
(2) S-1-5-18
both have same # of items & are same size.

This is clone of a smaller HDD.

Can I delete 1 or 2?
Will other folders be created in future like these? I need a path to
Recycle Bin that wont change with time- now Im using
F:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-18

Your help is MUCH appreciated.
Thanks- bye- Larry

Any advice is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

 

[Nightowl]

Hi Larry

All my partitions have 2 folders in Recycler:
(1) S-1-5-21-3936860944-2075014391-284059253-1005
(2) S-1-5-18
both have same # of items & are same size.

They aren't really the same; they just look like it While you are
logged in as User A, in the GUI any other user's bin appears to be a
duplicate and shows exactly the same files, but if you look at the
contents in a Command window you'll see that they're actually very
different.

The long number beginning S-1-5-21 is you; S-1-5-18 is the System
account.

Can I delete 1 or 2?

A Recycler sub-folder is created for each user when then log in, if it
didn't already exist. The System one might have been created by a
scheduled task or other background housekeeping app that logs on under
the System account. It wouldn't do any harm to delete it; if Windows
needs it, it will be recreated. There's no point in deleting your own
sub-folder since it will come back again next time you boot up

Will other folders be created in future like these?

Only if you or someone else logs in under a different account.

I need a path to
Recycle Bin that wont change with time- now Im using
F:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-18

Mind if I ask why? Just curious. . .

That's not really a good one to pick because, if you delete it now, the
particular circumstances that created it may not happen again for a long
time, or ever, and it will never be rebuilt. It would be better to use
your own bin, the one beginning S-1-5-21, because it will always be
there as long as that account is in use. The Very Long Number is your
SID or system ID and uniquely identifies that particular profile. If you
go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
and click on each sub-key in turn, you can look at ProfileImagePath in
the right pane and see who is who

Hope this helps!

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

Greetings Nightowl & thank you for your response.

Very interesting. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList has 4 subkeys but only * have Recycler
subfolders:
*S-1-5-18 = %systemroot%\system32\config\systemprofile
S-1-5-19 = %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\LocalService
S-1-5-20 = %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\NetworkService
*S-1-5-21-39...-1005 = %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\LL

So I can delete S-1-5-18 with SFT+DEL & I'll be left with
S-1-5-21-39...-1005?

I need a path to Recycle Bin that wont change with time cause I open
it with a macro that picks, orders, & sizes it in detail view so I can
delete items based on size, in right partition & old enuf. Right now
it has 400 little items taking 8MB. Links r hardest to reconstruct &
they stay in Recycler forever.

Your help is MUCH appreciated.
Thanks- bye- Larry

Hi Larry


They aren't really the same; they just look like it While you are
logged in as User A, in the GUI any other user's bin appears to be a
duplicate and shows exactly the same files, but if you look at the
contents in a Command window you'll see that they're actually very
different.

The long number beginning S-1-5-21 is you; S-1-5-18 is the System
account.


A Recycler sub-folder is created for each user when then log in, if it
didn't already exist. The System one might have been created by a
scheduled task or other background housekeeping app that logs on under
the System account. It wouldn't do any harm to delete it; if Windows
needs it, it will be recreated. There's no point in deleting your own
sub-folder since it will come back again next time you boot up


Only if you or someone else logs in under a different account.


Mind if I ask why? Just curious. . .

That's not really a good one to pick because, if you delete it now, the
particular circumstances that created it may not happen again for a long
time, or ever, and it will never be rebuilt. It would be better to use
your own bin, the one beginning S-1-5-21, because it will always be
there as long as that account is in use. The Very Long Number is your
SID or system ID and uniquely identifies that particular profile. If you
go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
and click on each sub-key in turn, you can look at ProfileImagePath in
the right pane and see who is who

Hope this helps!

Any advice is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.