Questions tagged [recycle-bin]
The Recycle Bin in Windows is a place for deleted files, from where they can be restored or permanently deleted
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Opening recycle bin takes 30 minutes or so on windows
I am on windows 10 with an SSD (the desktop is around 7 years old) - basically when I try to open my recycle bin it takes upwards of 30 minutes, and often just hangs. I am deleting a significant ...
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Is there a PowerShell, Batch, or VBS script that can automatically pin the recycle bin to the start menu?
The recycle bin doesn't show up when you type it into the start menu which seems incredibly moronic. I am able to create a shortcut and pin it to the start menu so it shows up, but I'd like to ...
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Automatically clean Windows recycle bin files & folders if they originated from a certain directory
How to automatically clean Windows recycle bin files & folders if they originated from a certain directory?
Context: I'm syncing with an App from my mobile phone to OneDrive. If the file gets ...
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How Do I add a RecycleBin to a newly formatted NTFS flash drive
New thumbdrives often come formatted as FAT or FATex drives. When I reformat them as NTFS drives, the RecycleBin is gone. How do I add it back in?
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Size of users' recycle bins on Windows Server 2019?
Is there a way to show the size of a recycle bin for each user in Windows Server 2019?
(Or, perhaps, calculate such sizes via PowerShell and then display them in a neat table?)
We may have runaway ...
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In VSCode remote ssh, how to change the right-click delete action in File Explorer from permanent deletion to moving files to the Recycle Bin?
I connect to remote server by ssh on vscode.
The right-click delete action in File Explorer will permanently delete files of remote server.
How to change the right-click delete action in File Explorer ...
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Restoring files from deleted users $Recycle.bin
I'm stuck on a problem that I feel shouldn't be so hard to crack, but I can't find a good solution for it.
I was handed a user's Windows 10 VM. For some reason, the original domain user account got ...
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What happens when a file in the D: drive that is larger than the free space in the C: drive is deleted?
So imagine there is 100MB of free space in the C: drive, where the recycle bin is held. If I want to delete a file that is 1GB located in the D: drive, what happens? Is the recycle bin like any other ...
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Is it safe to delete the stuff in the folder "$Recycle.Bin" on each drive?
I have been regularly cleaning up my computer and noticed a folder named "$Recycle.Bin" on each of my drives. I understand that this folder is used for the recycling feature on Windows, but ...
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How to transfer recycle bin to new computer
I am currently running in Windows 10. I'm getting a new computer running Windows 11. I'd like to continue to have access to my current recycle bin on the new computer. Is there a way to transfer the ...
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Why does `ls 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\'` show nothing?
I have a lot of files in Recycle Bin, yet using either ls 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\' or Get-ChildItem 'C:\$Recycle.Bin\' in PowerShell 7.1.5 there is no result. Do you know why?
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PowerShell, add the Recycle Bin to Quick access
I would very much like to add the "Recycle Bin" to the "Quick access" area of File Explorer using PowerShell (as this is a standard thing that I like to have on all new systems). ...
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Why previous file that has been replaced to new file is not in recycle bin Windows 11?
In Windows whenever we replace some file with new file Windows deletes the old version file permanently. We don't have option to undo the changes, that file is not in recycle bin and even there are no ...
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Recycle Bin only permanently deletes file [duplicate]
Even though the Recycle Bin is not set to permanently delete the files, whenever I delete a file, it is permanently deleted, it does not matter the file size. Prompt asks whether I want to permanently ...
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Fastest and easiest way to recover large amount of specific files from Windows Recycle Bin
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I am using Windows 10. Due to a file sync error I deleted over 11,000 files. They are now in the Recycle Bin. I have tried selecting the files I want to recover and recovering through the ...
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