Multiple Recycle Bins on 2k Pro

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William Howard

I'm running 2k Pro, Service Pack 4. I run a system with
Dual HDs, one for the System, and one for Files. Recently
I've noticed that within D:\Recycler, there are actually 4
recycle bins. This is not true on C:\Recycler. No matter
which one I empty on the D drive, or using the C Drive,
the different Recyclers do not dissapear. Yet they still
contain data. One of them has been holding onto over 1.7
gigs of my HD for at least a month now. I've searched
around the net, and found a few people mention this
problem, but have yet to find any kind of solution.

I am running Norton AntiVirus 2002, I mention this because
I saw somewhere that this could be caused by Norton's File
protect, but I have nothing like that installed.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
C:\ is probably fat file system D:\ is probably NTFS file system hence it
contains a \recycler\SID for each user

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| I'm running 2k Pro, Service Pack 4. I run a system with
| Dual HDs, one for the System, and one for Files. Recently
| I've noticed that within D:\Recycler, there are actually 4
| recycle bins. This is not true on C:\Recycler. No matter
| which one I empty on the D drive, or using the C Drive,
| the different Recyclers do not dissapear. Yet they still
| contain data. One of them has been holding onto over 1.7
| gigs of my HD for at least a month now. I've searched
| around the net, and found a few people mention this
| problem, but have yet to find any kind of solution.
|
| I am running Norton AntiVirus 2002, I mention this because
| I saw somewhere that this could be caused by Norton's File
| protect, but I have nothing like that installed.
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
 
Both drives are formatted with NTFS, And I don't even have
4 users setup on this system. I'm afraid to try and delete
the files, but in order to free up the space I may have to
do that unless you guys council otherwise.
 
William Howard said:
Both drives are formatted with NTFS, And I don't even have
4 users setup on this system. I'm afraid to try and delete
the files, but in order to free up the space I may have to
do that unless you guys council otherwise.
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If the Recycle Bin is giving you problems, you can simply delete
C:\Recycler or D:\Recycler, or both. Windows will create new folders when
it needs them. I've done this numerous times on my own system with no ill
effect.
 
The recycle bin may contain a corrupt, or otherwise incorrect information
file. If format is FAT, then from a command prompt change to the recycler
directory, then do a dir to see what files you might find and delete any
files found, then
attrib -h info*
this should unhide the info* file that stores the information about the
original location of deleted files in the recycle bin. Delete this file.

If format is NTFS then change to the recycler directory then change to the
hidden directory named for your SID (this can be found from within Explorer,
(by expanding the recycler folder). Then
attrib -h info*
this should unhide the info* file that stores the information about the
original location of deleted files in the recycle bin. Delete this file

Then the next time you move files to the recycle bin another hidden info
file will be created.

Another option is to delete only the info or info2 file (in the recycler
dir) and then restart the pc, then a new and correct information file will
be created in the recycler directory.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Both drives are formatted with NTFS, And I don't even have
| 4 users setup on this system. I'm afraid to try and delete
| the files, but in order to free up the space I may have to
| do that unless you guys council otherwise.
 
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