Recycle Bin Size Problem

[Bob Stock]

I have a fairly new computer. I have XP Home Edition. My hard drive
is about 180G in size. I have the C drive set to be 20% of the
Recycle Bin. Windows reports the "space reserved" as 3.99G. That is
also the size of the bin when you look at it with Explorer. It seems
to have trouble going above that size. At one time I had folders that
were deleted in 8/14/05. Now the oldest folder in the bin is 8/27/05.
Yet, nothing NEEDS to be deleted because I should have plenty of
space.

I read in some message in some newsgroup that the maximum size Windows
can allocate to the bin is 4G, but I can't find that documented
anywhere.

Does anyone have any idea of what is going on?

Thanks.

Bob

 

[S.Sengupta]

By default, Windows allocates up to 10 percent of each drive for the
Recycle Bin.
Right click on recycle bin, select properties, and change the value
according to your need.Move the slider to increase or decrease the
amount of disk space that is reserved for storing deleted items.

If you want to use different Recycle Bin settings for different drives,
click Configure drives independently, and then click the selective drive
tab to change the Recycle Bin settings for that drive.
If you want to use the same Recycle Bin settings for all drives, click
Use one setting for all drives.


regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[Bob Stock]

By default, Windows allocates up to 10 percent of each drive for the
Recycle Bin.
Right click on recycle bin, select properties, and change the value
according to your need.Move the slider to increase or decrease the
amount of disk space that is reserved for storing deleted items.

If you want to use different Recycle Bin settings for different drives,
click Configure drives independently, and then click the selective drive
tab to change the Recycle Bin settings for that drive.
If you want to use the same Recycle Bin settings for all drives, click
Use one setting for all drives.

Although I appreciate your taking the time to respond, you apparently
didn't take the time to *read* my post. Instead, you give me a canned
response about how to set the properties of the Recycle Bin.

Moving on, since I originally posted, I noticed that when Compaq set
up my computer, it created two partitions on the hard drive, the
normal C drive, which uses the NTFS file system, and a D drive with
"recovery" files on it, which uses FAT32. I'm wondering if that mix
of two file systems is causing my problem. I've read in a couple of
places, although neither is authoritative, that there may be an
undocumented 4G limit on FAT32 drives. Even though I am not even
recycling the D partition, only the C, I wonder if Windows is, uh,
confused.

I'm not quite sure why this is so hard to figure out. Apparently,
it's another weird Windows attribute that Microsoft keeps hidden from
the consumer.

Bob

 

[Stan Brown]

Moving on, since I originally posted, I noticed that when Compaq set
up my computer, it created two partitions on the hard drive, the
normal C drive, which uses the NTFS file system, and a D drive with
"recovery" files on it, which uses FAT32. I'm wondering if that mix
of two file systems is causing my problem.

Highly unlikely. I don't know of any reason why Windows should care
if different disks have different file systems.

I've read in a couple of
places, although neither is authoritative, that there may be an
undocumented 4G limit on FAT32 drives.

I can assure you there is not. My laptop came with two 50 GB
partitions, both formatted FAT32. Older machines and/or Windows
versions did have a limit, but I don't remember the details.

Even though I am not even
recycling the D partition, only the C, I wonder if Windows is, uh,
confused.

Probably, but I don't think the cause is listed above.

 

[Bob Stock]

Highly unlikely. I don't know of any reason why Windows should care
if different disks have different file systems.

These are different partitions on the same disk.

I can assure you there is not. My laptop came with two 50 GB
partitions, both formatted FAT32. Older machines and/or Windows
versions did have a limit, but I don't remember the details.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. The 4G limit refers to a limit of the
*recycle bin* size, not the drive or the partition itself.

Bob

 

[Stan Brown]

These are different partitions on the same disk.

Sorry -- I meant different partitions. I know of no reason why
Windows XP should be bothered by different file systems partitions in
the same disk or different disks.

My own disk has three type of partitions on it, FAT32, EXT3, and
Linus Swap, and Windows is no less stable than it was before I
installed the latter two types.