Reduce recycle bin size to below 1%

[Greg Russell]

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... the "child" here. ... will continue to top-post and edit (snip)
where and how I see fit.

<*plonk*> is where you belong then, child.

 

[Tim Meddick]

pathetic

 

[Bob I]

Thanks, reg wouldn't take .5.

Can you ask M.S. to fix it for Win 8.

See my first reply, Vista and Win 7 provide MB as the increment.

 

[Bob I]

No, with my 120 Gb drive, 1.2 Gb is WAY more than I need for my
recycle bin.
I don't recall every even having a file that big.

Andy

That space is for ALL the deleted files not PER file.

 

[Terry R.]

On 6/10/2010 5:16 PM On a whim, Tim Meddick pounded out on the keyboard

But having a Recycle Bin max capacity of 1% on a 120Gb HD resulting in
1.2Gb max sixe - is only going to take up that space when files have been
sent to it (i.e. actually been deleted via Recycle Bin)!!

In other words, if you don't delete 1.2 Gb worth of files (with RB enabled)
then the Recycle Bin is just never going to get full, is it?

The reason you have a setting where one is able to set a maximum size for
the Bin is to make sure a Recycle Bin full of useless old files cannot take
up too much space on smaller drives that need inventive use of space and
where space is at a premium.

But when you have a drive-size that has "room to spare" and will never be
even half-filled....

If you could make the max-size, say, 500Mb, what then?

There's no benefit to the Recycle Bin reaching the full capacity - it's not
like when you do, whistles and bells go off or that the bin automatically
does something!

Should the Recycle Bin ever actually reach the max-size you set, no more
files can be sent to it and will have to permanently deleted, with no
chance of recovery.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

There's something wrong with your comments. I just looked at the RB
size for a particular drive and it was set to 10%. The RB was empty. I
reduced the size to 5% and the available space on the drive increased.
If it doesn't take up the "set" space, then the available space should
have remained the same.


Terry R.

 

[Bob I]

On 6/10/2010 5:16 PM On a whim, Tim Meddick pounded out on the keyboard



There's something wrong with your comments. I just looked at the RB
size for a particular drive and it was set to 10%. The RB was empty. I
reduced the size to 5% and the available space on the drive increased.
If it doesn't take up the "set" space, then the available space should
have remained the same.

Are you using a FAT32 file system? This doen't happen on my NTFS system.

 

[Billns]

See previous reply.

If you really "need" to reduce the recycle bin size because you're
running out of disk space (a conjecture, I admit, on my part) then
perhaps a larger HD is in order.

Personally I don't worry about the recycle bin size as most of the time
I use Shift-Delete when I'm "sure" I want to delete a file. I've thought
about dispensing with the bin completely but that's a little too drastic.

Interesting thread...

Bill

 

[Tim Meddick]

Quite often, what you think is an "empty" RB is not empty at all!!

This effect has nothing to do with FAT vs. NTFS.

The RB can sometimes "hide" deleted files and folders buried within the
hidden x:\RECYCLER folder. I don't know WHY the system looses track of
deleted objects within the Recycle Bin, but all I know is that it often
does.

Changing the percentage-size of the RB will completely clear and re-set the
Recycle Bin, resulting in the freed-up disk space.

I think you will find that, after this initial re-gaining of space, that if
you again set the bin's size to 10% or even 50% and back to 1% again, there
will be NO noticeable change in available disk-space (other than the normal
fluctuations happening all the time due to the system writing logs and
such).

But you will not loose or regain the same amount of disk-space as you saw
before, as the Bin has now been cleared of it's accumulated [hidden] files
and folders.

To actually "see" what's really inside YOUR Recycle Bin at any time - when
you think it's really empty - open a Command Prompt window, and type in the
following command :

dir /a /o /p /s C:\RECYCLER

...and see for yourself what an "empty" bin looks like.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.