Recycle Bin

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Skyhawk

For some time now, whenever I drag anything into the recycle bin it
completely disappears. I can never retreive anything from it as nothing ever
appears to go into it, or it evaporates as soon as it gets there. I've
already checked properties, the third box IS NOT checked, and it's greyed out
so I wouldn't be able to if I wanted to, and I have over 3GB of room so it
should be storing a lot of stuff before it would automatically dump items,
yet there's nothing in there, ever. How can this be? Where are these items
going?
 
Skyhawk said:
For some time now, whenever I drag anything into the recycle bin it
completely disappears. I can never retreive anything from it as nothing
ever
appears to go into it, or it evaporates as soon as it gets there. I've
already checked properties, the third box IS NOT checked, and it's greyed
out
so I wouldn't be able to if I wanted to, and I have over 3GB of room so it
should be storing a lot of stuff before it would automatically dump items,
yet there's nothing in there, ever. How can this be? Where are these items
going?
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Do you have any Norton products installed? Some of them take over normal
handling of file deletion to the Recycle Bin.
 
Skyhawk said:
Nope, nothing I'm aware of. The only one we have is AVG 7.5 for virus
protection.
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First off, AVG 7.5 has been updated to 8.5 and I recommend that you go to
AVG's web site and update.

Right click Recycle Bin, Properties and see if you have turned on the switch
for Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. If it is checked, uncheck and
then click Apply, OK. Create a test file, delete it by using the drag and
drop and see if it is retained. You may have to turn the switch on, turn it
off and reboot the system to make it stick.
 
Tried that, no change. They weren't selected before, but I did, then
deselected, then restarted and no diff. Tested it and the dragged file still
disappeared into thin air, never to show up in the recycle bin. I'm perplexed.
 
Skyhawk

Here is a hint. Dragging into the recycle bin or sending it to the recycle bin is 2
different things. Might want to try it
 
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