Recycle Bin Problem

[Peter Kaufman]

Hi,

W2K Server SP4

I have Recycle bin set to configure drives independently. I've tried
all different settings for Drive D:, but I still have 6 files showing
in D:\recycler with SIDs like S-1-5-21-nnnn etc.

I would like to recover the 500 MB these files are taking up. These
files are marked hidden and will not un hide either from Explorer or
the command line. The hidden check box is grayed out in Explorer and I
get "file not found" trying attrib -h from the command line.

Any ideas? Should it be safe to delete these should I find a way to do
it?

Thanks,

Peter

 

[Gary Smith]

I have Recycle bin set to configure drives independently. I've tried
all different settings for Drive D:, but I still have 6 files showing
in D:\recycler with SIDs like S-1-5-21-nnnn etc.

There's typically one of these for each user who has ever deleted anything
from that drive.

I would like to recover the 500 MB these files are taking up. These
files are marked hidden and will not un hide either from Explorer or
the command line. The hidden check box is grayed out in Explorer and I
get "file not found" trying attrib -h from the command line.

These folders have both the hidden and system attributes set, and you have
to remove both at once and specify the full folder name:

attrib -s -h \recycler\S-1-5-21-1123765945-840412246-1343968091-1000

Any ideas? Should it be safe to delete these should I find a way to do
it?

Yes, it's completely safe, but tedious to do. I prefer to delete the
entire folder: RD \Recycler /s
That works without resetting any attributes. Windows will recreate the
folder when needed.

 

[Peter Kaufman]

Gary, thanks.

I tried attrib -h -s *.* and got "file not found" but deleting the
entire directory did work.

Peter