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I have a WDC USB 80 gig hard drive for Retrospect backups. I had a
directory with about 50 gigs of backup files that I wanted to delete.
(Switching to Ghost.) I selected the 50 or so files, clicked on the
right mouse button and selected "Delete." They were deleted. Only a
handful showed up in the Recycle Bin. I emptied the Recycle Bin and
they were deleted. None of the files I selected are now visible inside
that directory, but when I run Properties on that M:\ drive icon, it
does not reflect that I have deleted anything. It still shows the drive
to be nearly full when it should be only a quarter full at this point.
I ran chdsk on M: and converted it to NTFS for Ghost. No change in the
capacity pie chart in Properties. I tried unmounting and re-mounting
the drive to no avail. I thought that those files that could not fit
into the Recycle Bin are automatically deleted. Have the files in fact
been deleted? Is the file system just slow to update its records as to
the percentage of file space used? What did I do wrong? How can I fix
this, short of re-formatting M:? I looked in C:\RCECYCLER and found
nothing there.
Any help greatly appreciated.
directory with about 50 gigs of backup files that I wanted to delete.
(Switching to Ghost.) I selected the 50 or so files, clicked on the
right mouse button and selected "Delete." They were deleted. Only a
handful showed up in the Recycle Bin. I emptied the Recycle Bin and
they were deleted. None of the files I selected are now visible inside
that directory, but when I run Properties on that M:\ drive icon, it
does not reflect that I have deleted anything. It still shows the drive
to be nearly full when it should be only a quarter full at this point.
I ran chdsk on M: and converted it to NTFS for Ghost. No change in the
capacity pie chart in Properties. I tried unmounting and re-mounting
the drive to no avail. I thought that those files that could not fit
into the Recycle Bin are automatically deleted. Have the files in fact
been deleted? Is the file system just slow to update its records as to
the percentage of file space used? What did I do wrong? How can I fix
this, short of re-formatting M:? I looked in C:\RCECYCLER and found
nothing there.
Any help greatly appreciated.