XP Pro - Recycled & Recycler Folders - Whats the difference ?

[victory]

In each of the Partitions on my hard drive except the C:\ , I have a
Folder called " RECYCLED " and one called " RECYCLER "

The C:\ drive has only "RECYCLER"

When I click on RECYCLER I get what seems to be a sub -Folder with a
long numeric title beginning :-"S-1-5-21-........."

When this is clicked , I then get what one would expect to see in a
normal RECYCLED Folder , i.e. deleted Folders and files

When RECYCLED is clicked it produces the same deleted items .

Why do I have both of these Folders and why should one have such a
sub-Folder ?

Is this normal in XP ?

B.N.

 

[HillBillyBuddhist]

In each of the Partitions on my hard drive except the C:\ , I have a
Folder called " RECYCLED " and one called " RECYCLER "

The C:\ drive has only "RECYCLER"

When I click on RECYCLER I get what seems to be a sub -Folder with a
long numeric title beginning :-"S-1-5-21-........."

When this is clicked , I then get what one would expect to see in a
normal RECYCLED Folder , i.e. deleted Folders and files

When RECYCLED is clicked it produces the same deleted items .

Why do I have both of these Folders and why should one have such a
sub-Folder ?

Is this normal in XP ?

B.N.

Swiped from another post.

As reported by Sharon F. MVP;

"When your drives are formatted NTFS, Windows Explorer shows the recycle bin
folder as "Recycler." "Recycled" if using Fat32.

Set Folder Options> View to show hidden files/folder and to show system
protected files. Then when you peek into Recycler you'll see your unique ID
number. The files that your account has deleted are tracked by that number.
If there are other users on the system, you will see numbers for them as
well.

Use the Recycle Bin interface to manage the bin instead of the Recycler
folder."



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