A Couple of Questions About Recycle Bins

[jim evans]

Question 1
One of my drives has two folders with the Trash Basket icon. One is
named Recycled and the other Recycle Bin. Why are there two and
what's the difference between them?

Question 2
Are file deletions segregated by drive? That is, a file deleted on
drive H goes in H's recycle bin and no deleted files from another
drive ever go in H's bin.

jim

 

[Bogey Man]

Question 1
One of my drives has two folders with the Trash Basket icon. One is
named Recycled and the other Recycle Bin. Why are there two and
what's the difference between them?

Question 2
Are file deletions segregated by drive? That is, a file deleted on
drive H goes in H's recycle bin and no deleted files from another
drive ever go in H's bin.

jim

I can't answer your first question but for the second one, right click on
the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop and choose Properties. On the Global
tab, select "Use one setting for all drives."

 

[z1z1z1]

Question 1
One of my drives has two folders with the Trash Basket icon. One is
named Recycled and the other Recycle Bin. Why are there two and
what's the difference between them?

Question 2
Are file deletions segregated by drive? That is, a file deleted on
drive H goes in H's recycle bin and no deleted files from another
drive ever go in H's bin.

jim

On a FAT drive, it uses the name RECYCLED, and on NTFS, it uses RECYCLER.
Maybe you converted a FAT drive to NTFS? Or maybe you have used the drive
on two different versions of windows?
If there is nothing you want to pull back out of the recycle bin, you can
safely delete both folders - only one will probably come back.

The files stay on the same drive as where they were deleted from (it only
does a move, not a copy).

 

[jim evans]

On a FAT drive, it uses the name RECYCLED, and on NTFS, it uses RECYCLER.
Maybe you converted a FAT drive to NTFS? Or maybe you have used the drive
on two different versions of windows?
If there is nothing you want to pull back out of the recycle bin, you can
safely delete both folders - only one will probably come back.

The files stay on the same drive as where they were deleted from (it only
does a move, not a copy).

Thanks.

jim

 

[Ron Martell]

Question 1
One of my drives has two folders with the Trash Basket icon. One is
named Recycled and the other Recycle Bin. Why are there two and
what's the difference between them?

Recycled is the name used for the folder on a FAT32 drive where the
Recycle Bin contents for that drive are stored.

Recycle Bin is the name for the utility that is used to work with the
contents of the Recycled folder(s).

Question 2
Are file deletions segregated by drive? That is, a file deleted on
drive H goes in H's recycle bin and no deleted files from another
drive ever go in H's bin.

jim

Each hard drive/partition has its own Recycled folder. The Recycle
Bin utility shows all deleted files from the Recycled folders on all
of the hard drives/partitions on the computer.

This is a speed/performance consideration. If only a single Recycled
partition was used then files deleted from hard drives/partition other
than the one where the Recycled folder was located would have to be
physically copied, and when restored they would have to be physcally
copied again. By having a separate folder for each hard
drive/partition no actual copying or moving of the files is necessary.
All that is needed is to rewrite the directory entry to show that this
file now belongs to a different folder.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2008)
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