Guest jim evans Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Question 1 One of my drives has two folders with the Trash Basket icon. One is named Recycled and the other Recycle Bin. Why are there two and what's the difference between them? Question 2 Are file deletions segregated by drive? That is, a file deleted on drive H goes in H's recycle bin and no deleted files from another drive ever go in H's bin. jim
Guest Bogey Man Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: A Couple of Questions About Recycle Bins "jim evans" <jimsTAKEOUTnews2@houston.rr.com> wrote in message news:jbn3b3pbd9cav9146j8rdden5hhve8t2b0@4ax.com... > > Question 1 > One of my drives has two folders with the Trash Basket icon. One is > named Recycled and the other Recycle Bin. Why are there two and > what's the difference between them? > > Question 2 > Are file deletions segregated by drive? That is, a file deleted on > drive H goes in H's recycle bin and no deleted files from another > drive ever go in H's bin. > > jim I can't answer your first question but for the second one, right click on the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop and choose Properties. On the Global tab, select "Use one setting for all drives."
Guest z1z1z1 Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: A Couple of Questions About Recycle Bins jim evans <jimsTAKEOUTnews2@houston.rr.com> wrote in news:jbn3b3pbd9cav9146j8rdden5hhve8t2b0@4ax.com: > Question 1 > One of my drives has two folders with the Trash Basket icon. One is > named Recycled and the other Recycle Bin. Why are there two and > what's the difference between them? > > Question 2 > Are file deletions segregated by drive? That is, a file deleted on > drive H goes in H's recycle bin and no deleted files from another > drive ever go in H's bin. > > jim On a FAT drive, it uses the name RECYCLED, and on NTFS, it uses RECYCLER. Maybe you converted a FAT drive to NTFS? Or maybe you have used the drive on two different versions of windows? If there is nothing you want to pull back out of the recycle bin, you can safely delete both folders - only one will probably come back. The files stay on the same drive as where they were deleted from (it only does a move, not a copy).
Guest jim evans Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: A Couple of Questions About Recycle Bins On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:17:24 -0700, z1z1z1 <bogus@email.address> wrote: >jim evans <jimsTAKEOUTnews2@houston.rr.com> wrote in >news:jbn3b3pbd9cav9146j8rdden5hhve8t2b0@4ax.com: > >> Question 1 >> One of my drives has two folders with the Trash Basket icon. One is >> named Recycled and the other Recycle Bin. Why are there two and >> what's the difference between them? >> >> Question 2 >> Are file deletions segregated by drive? That is, a file deleted on >> drive H goes in H's recycle bin and no deleted files from another >> drive ever go in H's bin. >> >> jim > >On a FAT drive, it uses the name RECYCLED, and on NTFS, it uses RECYCLER. >Maybe you converted a FAT drive to NTFS? Or maybe you have used the drive >on two different versions of windows? >If there is nothing you want to pull back out of the recycle bin, you can >safely delete both folders - only one will probably come back. > >The files stay on the same drive as where they were deleted from (it only >does a move, not a copy). Thanks. jim
Guest Ron Martell Posted August 2, 2007 Posted August 2, 2007 Re: A Couple of Questions About Recycle Bins jim evans <jimsTAKEOUTnews2@houston.rr.com> wrote: > >Question 1 >One of my drives has two folders with the Trash Basket icon. One is >named Recycled and the other Recycle Bin. Why are there two and >what's the difference between them? Recycled is the name used for the folder on a FAT32 drive where the Recycle Bin contents for that drive are stored. Recycle Bin is the name for the utility that is used to work with the contents of the Recycled folder(s). > >Question 2 >Are file deletions segregated by drive? That is, a file deleted on >drive H goes in H's recycle bin and no deleted files from another >drive ever go in H's bin. > >jim Each hard drive/partition has its own Recycled folder. The Recycle Bin utility shows all deleted files from the Recycled folders on all of the hard drives/partitions on the computer. This is a speed/performance consideration. If only a single Recycled partition was used then files deleted from hard drives/partition other than the one where the Recycled folder was located would have to be physically copied, and when restored they would have to be physcally copied again. By having a separate folder for each hard drive/partition no actual copying or moving of the files is necessary. All that is needed is to rewrite the directory entry to show that this file now belongs to a different folder. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2008) On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never been in bed with a mosquito."
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