Recycler & Incinerator

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Can someone tell me why I have Recycler & Incinerator [Are they not for the
same purpose?] in each drive.

I have two drives with 4 partitions on one & 3 on the other & 3 O/S's.

Why does Recycler show up on each drive.

The file names are similar to this:
S-1-5-21-1482476501-706699826-1343024091-1000.

All of them seem to be mapped to the original Recycle Bin [I think?]
 
Me2Ewe said:
Can someone tell me why I have Recycler & Incinerator [Are they not for the
same purpose?] in each drive.

I have two drives with 4 partitions on one & 3 on the other & 3 O/S's.

Why does Recycler show up on each drive.

The file names are similar to this:
S-1-5-21-1482476501-706699826-1343024091-1000.

All of them seem to be mapped to the original Recycle Bin [I think?]
Click to expand...

Recycler is the XP recycle bin. It shows up on every partition.
 
Can someone tell me why I have Recycler & Incinerator [Are they not for the
same purpose?] in each drive.

I have two drives with 4 partitions on one & 3 on the other & 3 O/S's.

Why does Recycler show up on each drive.

The file names are similar to this:
S-1-5-21-1482476501-706699826-1343024091-1000.

All of them seem to be mapped to the original Recycle Bin [I think?]
Click to expand...

Recycler is the folder representation of the Recycle Bin on NTFS drives. It
offers temporary storage of files that you want to get rid of. Empty the
Recycle Bin for the final deletion stage. Windows deletes files by simply
marking the space as "available." The files are still there until they are
overwritten with new files. If the files are not overwritten or only
partially overwritten, "undelete" tools can restore them.

"Incinerator" sounds like something that permanently deletes the files.
Besides marking the space "available" it probably does something extra to
make it difficult/impossible to retrieve the "incinerated files" with
undelete tools.
 
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