Recycle Bin Slooooow

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I have a P4 - 2.0G with 512Meg Ram - XP HE
one HD 60G 7200 Five partitions
other HD 20G - 5400 one partition

Whenever I open the recycle bin it is *very* slow for the system to
read every files there and give me control of scrolling. Waiting time
is : 2 minutes

Right now I have 1316 files in the recycle bin for 2.15GB

Are those 2 minutes normal?

If not what's wrong?

Den
 
Try deleting some of the files from the recycle bin.
If you know you won't be needing to restore them then delete them.
I don't know for a certainty that this will solve your problem but since
most of them aren't needed it's a great place to start.

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I have a P4 - 2.0G with 512Meg Ram - XP HE
one HD 60G 7200 Five partitions
other HD 20G - 5400 one partition

Whenever I open the recycle bin it is *very* slow for the system to
read every files there and give me control of scrolling. Waiting time
is : 2 minutes

Right now I have 1316 files in the recycle bin for 2.15GB

Are those 2 minutes normal?

If not what's wrong?

Den
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Why do you have so many files in the Recycle Bin? The slowness could be
Explorer trying to render icons for the files. Take some of those files out
of the bin (delete or move them) and find out if it makes a difference.

Suggestion: Create a folder and call it "Hold2Delete" or "Hold2Del." When
you have a file that you think you might want to delete but aren't ready to
send it into oblivion, toss it into this folder. Review the folder's
contents every now and then. Delete the files or move them onto CD or some
other form of storage.
 
Makes good sense to me.


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Sharon F said:
Why do you have so many files in the Recycle Bin? The slowness could be
Explorer trying to render icons for the files. Take some of those files out
of the bin (delete or move them) and find out if it makes a difference.

Suggestion: Create a folder and call it "Hold2Delete" or "Hold2Del." When
you have a file that you think you might want to delete but aren't ready to
send it into oblivion, toss it into this folder. Review the folder's
contents every now and then. Delete the files or move them onto CD or some
other form of storage.
Click to expand...
 
From all your suggestions / questions I get a better picture of this
problem. My recycle bin is obviously to big.

Thank you all for your help.

Den
 
Like Sharon says, it is probably XP trying to render the icons.

Me -- I just empty the darned thing out every so often. I have not
yet had to try and recover something I emptied out. You deleted the
stuff for a reason. If you think you might need to recover something
you deleted, then don't delete it in the 1st place - move it to a save
folder or something.

Den, how many files or folders have you had to go back weeks or months
later and recovered?
 
Den, how many files or folders have you had to go back weeks or months
later and recovered?
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Good point, strong argument :-)

I did exactly what you suggested; delete all the files and start new.
After so many days, weeks and maybe months no use to keep all those
files.

Thanks Big MaC

Den
 
That doesn't make sense in my case. I'm sitting here watching the recycle
bin empty. 12 minutes to go. It's always been slow from day 1. I tend to
open a DOS prompt do delete files just to avoid the recycle bin.

I know it's not trying to display icons, since I right clicked on it and
choose empty recycle bin.

This is basically a move right? (instead of delete it moves the file to
the recycle bin). It shouldn't take any time at all. Yet it normally
takes several seconds.

OK, after the recycle bin was emptied, I deleted something. It was much
faster. Deleting another file took longer. (noticably). So it looks
like the more is in there the slower it gets. Why is that? I'm using
ntfs, so it is a much better designed file system. Shouldn't slow down
noticably with TWO files.
Click to expand...

It's a little more complicated than a move. Recycle Bin is more of a
mini-program even though the operating system represents it as a folder.
The original location of the file is recorded in case you decide to
"Restore" from the bin. A hidden text file is utilized to list information
about each and every file that has been deleted. In addition, if the file
is one of the monitored file types, System Restore will want to make notes
(and a copy) of the file too. With a very full recycle bin, the time
required for this behind the scenes record-keeping to take place will
increase.

Historically, corruption can occur within the Bin. This usually results in
deleted files not being displayed in the bin but slowness could be a
symptom as well. A rebuild of the bin usually sorts out those problems. I
haven't seen a Microsoft Knowledge Base article for rebuilding an XP
Recycle Bin but there are ones available for other versions of Windows. MVP
Kelly Theriot recaps this information and her own findings about the XP
recycle bin on the "R" page of her "A to Z" pages:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_qr.htm
 
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