Recycle Bin Corrupt Error

[Trish Finney]

For some time now, after I delete something, when I go to the Deleted folder, it's empty. When trying to access the folder I sometimes get the message that the recycle bin is corrupt. I have gone to Microsoft's downloads & done the recommended fixes, but I still have nothing in the deleted folder. Is anyone else getting this or been able to fix it? I have XP, and this started recently, not since I bought the PC new.

 

[Don Phillipson]

For some time now, after I delete something, when I go to the Deleted

folder, it's empty. When trying to

access the folder I sometimes get the message that the recycle bin is

corrupt. I have gone to Microsoft's

downloads & done the recommended fixes, but I still have nothing in the deleted folder. Is anyone else
getting this or been able to fix it? I have XP, and this started recently,

not since I bought the PC new.

Select (highlight) the Recyc Bin icon and Right Click to
investigate its Properties. The window "Global" has a
checkbox for instant deletion (on/off). Yours may have
been checked to remove deleted files from the hard
drive (as opposed to storing them in the Recyc Bin.)

 

[John John (MVP)]

Try deleting the recycler folder(s), Windows will recreate it when you
reboot. From a command prompt issue the following command:

rd /s /q c:\recycler

If you have more than one drive you will have to issue the command for
each drive, changing the c: with the appropriate drive letter. If you
have more than one user on the machine all recycle bins will be emptied.

John

 

[Trish Finney]

When I typed that in I got a message that says Windows "can't find rd" . I
tried using d instead of rd and got "Windows can't find d".

 

[John John (MVP)]

Click on Start | Run and enter CMD in the run box. A Command session
will start, at the started Command Prompt issue the command:

rd /s /q c:\recycler

You have to be logged on as an administrator to run the command.

John

 

[Trish Finney]

Thank you! I have items in the Recycle Bin & didn't get an error message
when I clicked on it!

 

[John John (MVP)]

You're welcome.

John