Recycle Bin - file size in steps of 16kb?

[Guest]

the files in my recycle bin are all in steps of 16kb. how can i get it to show the exact size of the file? can anyone help? thanks for the help

 

[roger]

Hi Thomas,

the files in my recycle bin are all in steps of 16kb. how can i get it to show the exact size of the file? can anyone help? thanks for the help!

Open a command prompt (Start > Run > cmd)
and type the following line, according to the type of your partition:

For a NTFS partition:
RD /S X:\RECYCLER

For a FAT32 partition:
RD /S X:\RECYCLED

(Where X is the letter of the drive where Windows is installed)

Good luck

 

[VManes]

rd = Remove Directory.

For any command line command (DOS commands, if you will), just type
help commandname
to get lots of sometimes helpful info.

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Hi roger,

May I know what will the command do? Thanks!

----- roger wrote: -----

Hi Thomas,

the files in my recycle bin are all in steps of 16kb. how can i get it

to show the exact size of the file? can anyone help? thanks for the help!
Open a command prompt (Start > Run > cmd)
and type the following line, according to the type of your partition:

For a NTFS partition:
RD /S X:\RECYCLER

For a FAT32 partition:
RD /S X:\RECYCLED

(Where X is the letter of the drive where Windows is installed)

Good luck

 

[roger]

Hi Thomas,

The command will erase the recycle bin folder. Being a system folder,
it will be recreated, hopefully without the problems it is
experiencing now.

I've tried the command on my system, and it erased the bin, this was
recreated with no harmful effects.

Good luck

 

[Guest]

Hi roger

thanks. I suppose deleting the folder will empty the recycle bin as well

----- roger wrote: ----

Hi Thomas

The command will erase the recycle bin folder. Being a system folder
it will be recreated, hopefully without the problems it i
experiencing now

I've tried the command on my system, and it erased the bin, this wa
recreated with no harmful effects

Good luc

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:26:31 -0800, Thoma

 

[Guest]

Hi roger

i tried the command, the system created the new folder, however, i still experienced problems with the file sizes in the recycle bin. after getting the new recycle bin, i deleted some files (some shortcuts & text files) with a combined file size of less than 16kb. but when i checked the recycle bin, each of those files showed me they are 16kb in size. i guess the problem wasn't fixed. is there any other things i can do? thanks

----- thomas wrote: ----

Hi roger

thanks. I suppose deleting the folder will empty the recycle bin as well

----- roger wrote: ----

Hi Thomas

The command will erase the recycle bin folder. Being a system folder
it will be recreated, hopefully without the problems it i
experiencing now

I've tried the command on my system, and it erased the bin, this wa
recreated with no harmful effects

Good luc

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:26:31 -0800, Thoma

 

[Guest]

I tried that command and was return many can't access file prompt, did you get the same, if so how resolved

 

[Guest]

I was able to run that command. Only thing is, my recycle bin wasn't fixed. Now, I can't see the "Recycled" folder in my Windows Explorer, when I click on "C:". Any remedies?

----- bigbob300 wrote: ----

I tried that command and was return many can't access file prompt, did you get the same, if so how resolved