How to get the folder name for the Windows recycle bin?

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Bearing in mind the Windows recycle bin folder has had 3 names since
Win 95 up to Vista:
x:\RECYCLED (95, 98)
x:\RECYCLER (NT, XP, 2000, 2003)
x:\$Recycle.bin (Vista)

Consider iterating through the the root folder of a drive, and
excluding the recycle bin from your results. It is unacceptable to
simply ignore folders named "RECYCLED", "RECYCLER" or "$Recycle.bin"
by string comparison because, for example, a Vista user may have
created their own "Recycled" folder.

Is there a set of constants for these folders, or a way of discovering
the recycle bin folder for a given volume in .NET?

Consider too that the drive might not be local, and may be accessed
remotely by system share (e.g. \\machine\C$\)

Boz
 
Hello (e-mail address removed),

AFAIK use SHGetSpecialFolderLocation with BITBUCKET flag

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Thanks for the response. Unfortunately that will only work when
finding the recycle bin folder for the machine the process is running
on. There's no way of specifying a remote volume or share.

What I really need to do is get the file system and use that to
determine the recycle bin folder, but I can't think how to distinguish
a remote normal NTFS file system from a Vista NTFS file system.

Any thoughts?

Boz
 
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