Recycle Bin - Why the Searchlight?

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WinXP Home

Suddenly, and for no particular reason, when I click on the Recycle Bin, a
searchlight waves about for about five to ten seconds before the relevant
files appear. It's not something I can't live with, but I'm curious as to
whether this behavior is a symptom of something I should attend to.
 
PT said:
WinXP Home

Suddenly, and for no particular reason, when I click on the Recycle Bin, a
searchlight waves about for about five to ten seconds before the relevant
files appear. It's not something I can't live with, but I'm curious as to
whether this behavior is a symptom of something I should attend to.
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Yeah, you and me both

I have noticed this for some time on a folder I created myself, named
Utilities. In this folder are shortcuts to the programs that I use often -
sort of a replacement for searching for programs in the Start folder.

I have given up wondering why, but maybe someone else can tell us
 
PT said:
WinXP Home

Suddenly, and for no particular reason, when I click on the Recycle Bin, a
searchlight waves about for about five to ten seconds before the relevant
files appear. It's not something I can't live with, but I'm curious as to
whether this behavior is a symptom of something I should attend to.
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The recycle bin isn't stored on one particular drive. It is in fact a
folder that has functionality behind it that searches for those files that
have been deleted from all the drives in your PC. Hence when you open it,
it first has to collate all the files from around your PC. Normally, it
will remember once you have opened it, but if you delete a lot of files
before you open it again, it takes a short while to gather the information.

This is a bit of a simplistic explanation, but adequate for its purpose.
 
M.I.5¾ said:
The recycle bin isn't stored on one particular drive. It is in fact a
folder that has functionality behind it that searches for those files that
have been deleted from all the drives in your PC. Hence when you open it,
it first has to collate all the files from around your PC. Normally, it
will remember once you have opened it, but if you delete a lot of files
before you open it again, it takes a short while to gather the information.

This is a bit of a simplistic explanation, but adequate for its purpose.
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BUT the recycle bin has disk clusters full of file names and locations
like any other folder. Remember that ANY folder doesn't actually contain
the files, it just has a list of where the file's disk cluster list
starts. Whether it's the "recycle bin" or an ordinary folder, when a
file is moved from one folder to another on the same partition only the
list of file names and the links to the files are shifted (from one
folder to the other). The folder databases could experiences performance
problems with disk fragmentation though.
 
RobertVA said:
BUT the recycle bin has disk clusters full of file names and locations
like any other folder. Remember that ANY folder doesn't actually
contain the files, it just has a list of where the file's disk
cluster list starts. Whether it's the "recycle bin" or an ordinary
folder, when a file is moved from one folder to another on the same
partition only the list of file names and the links to the files are
shifted (from one folder to the other). The folder databases could
experiences performance problems with disk fragmentation though.
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Just cogitatin': nothing defnitive, but:

I've found that to be the case on most of the fully updated machines
that come in. I've often wondered if it had something to do with
updates since I don't think I"ve ever seen an SP3 machine that didn't do
it. I don't do updates for them because they usually have a reason they
think they don't want updates.
 
The date and time was Friday, March 20, 2009 9:28:16 AM, and on a whim,
Twayne pounded out on the keyboard:
Just cogitatin': nothing defnitive, but:

I've found that to be the case on most of the fully updated machines
that come in. I've often wondered if it had something to do with
updates since I don't think I"ve ever seen an SP3 machine that didn't do
it. I don't do updates for them because they usually have a reason they
think they don't want updates.
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Hi Twayne,

I hardly ever open my RB, and I just did. It was instantaneous. Fully
patched w/SP3. Of course my workstation is very fast for an old model
(AMD 3000+). But I have 3 hard drives on this workstation and
everything is spread out between them, OS on one drive, data on another,
programs on another. So the performance I see is usually faster than
any duo core or even quad core machines I've worked one.

I think issues like this are dependent on three factors; One, the
amount of files in the RB. Two, the graphics card GPU/memory and if
it's dedicated or not. Three, the hard drive speed.


Terry R.
 
I saw the same problem but I found it was caused by a large removable drive
plugged in. Do you have something like that?

Frank
 
I do. But it's been there for a long time pre-dating the searchlight.

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PT
FrankV said:
I saw the same problem but I found it was caused by a large removable drive
plugged in. Do you have something like that?

Frank
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