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| Thread ID: 146413 | 2018-07-26 22:53:00 | Great difficulty deleting items from my Recycle Bin | Misty (368) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1452039 | 2018-07-29 17:56:00 | Try in safe mode also try doing a scan disk |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1452040 | 2018-07-29 22:38:00 | VG suggestion apsattv, thanks. I have done a scan disk on both the C Drive (solid state) and the G Hard Drive. Both were okay. However, in the process, I have discovered that Drive E - System Reserved Disk is 57% fragmented. However when I go to defragment it, it goes through the process (or says it does) and things remain the same! Now what to do?? :( (Just an update on how the Recycle Bin is behaving, or misbehaving. Yesterday I decided to act bravely and told it to delete everything ...... and it did. Today, firstly I tried the same thing with about twenty or more files that I deleted from my archive, and it decided not to do anything. Additionally I tried to restore two files, and it seemed to agree to do that, but nothing happened.) |
Misty (368) | ||
| 1452041 | 2018-07-29 22:59:00 | I'm guessing G is a USB connected external drive. Maybe check the Recycle Bin properties regarding the size of the bin on G. I've seen bin issues where the bin claimed to be holding far more than it was configured for. You may want to considerably increase the bin size. Personally, I set the bin to zero (off) on external drives. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1452042 | 2018-07-29 23:10:00 | Your recycle bin could be corrupted. I'm also not sure if Windows has a single location for the recycle bin or it exists across different drives. Normally to recreate the recycle bin, you delete the system hidden $recycle.bin from the root of the drive and next time you delete something it gets recreated. This may also destroy the recycle bin cache, which is always a good thing to clear. I also think it's quite inefficient to use the recycle bin how you are doing it, it's fine to use it to recover accidental deletes but to treat it as another folder to sort through can be the reason it'll start getting sluggish because its meant to be sandboxed away from your data and does have a performance cost to viewing files inside it. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 1452043 | 2018-08-03 22:00:00 | Well Kame, I have done a search on my C Drive to locate the recycle bin. What has come up is $recycle.bin.cdf-ms. Is this the correct file please? | Misty (368) | ||
| 1452044 | 2018-08-03 22:13:00 | I have found a way that used to apply to Windows 8, but can't see a way of doing the same in Windows 10. Here is that procedure "Follow these steps: a) Press Windows key + X , and then click Control Panel. b) Click Personalization, and then click Change desktop icons. c) Click to select the Recycle Bin check box, and then click Restore default. d) Click Ok and check." Does anyone know how that would work in Windows 10 please? |
Misty (368) | ||
| 1452045 | 2018-08-11 19:52:00 | Actually I would start here www.windowscentral.com Do a scan and repair |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1452046 | 2018-08-12 02:32:00 | One simple and quick way to completely empty the Recycle bin, (if its corrupted) is open a CMD as admin, type in rd /s /q C:\$Recycle.bin <Press Enter Key> restart the computer. The command will reset the $Recycle.bin folder. Every drive has its own recycle bin, if you right click the recycle bin / Properties it will show you its available size and you can set the amount of space available for it. Wont hurt to do it for the other drives as well, changing the drive letter as required. Failing that then run the DISM commands "RestoreHealth " as Apsattv posted. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1452047 | 2018-08-12 22:28:00 | VG suggestion apsattv, thanks. I have done a scan disk on both the C Drive (solid state) and the G Hard Drive. Both were okay. However, in the process, I have discovered that Drive E - System Reserved Disk is 57% fragmented. However when I go to defragment it, it goes through the process (or says it does) and things remain the same! Now what to do?? :( Just dont . Dont defrag a system reserved drive, dont defrag anything on the SSD . System reserved may be on the SSD . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1452048 | 2018-08-13 04:32:00 | One simple and quick way to completely empty the Recycle bin, (if its corrupted) is open a CMD as admin, type in rd /s /q C:\$Recycle . bin <Press Enter Key> restart the computer . The command will reset the $Recycle . bin folder . Every drive has its own recycle bin, if you right click the recycle bin / Properties it will show you its available size and you can set the amount of space available for it . Wont hurt to do it for the other drives as well, changing the drive letter as required . Failing that then run the DISM commands "RestoreHealth " as Apsattv posted . Many thanks, wainuitech - I opened CMD as admin . First did the C Drive, then did the important one - the G Drive, where all our data is stored . All seemed to go well because the Recycle Bin was empty when I rebooted . However did a test by deleting an NEF file into the Recycle Bin, which is the type of file (suffix) it consistently has problems with . It would not delete from the Recycle Bin - just stays there . NEF files are Nikon brand RAW image files . I think I did the G Drive correctly - I left the C:\Windows\ system32> as was and added rd/s/q G:\$Recycle . bin . Could it be that the NEF files belong to a 64 bit program, ie should I change to system64, or am I overthinking this? Next to try is the post from Apsattv . Before I do that I will do both my backups and also create a Restore Point . |
Misty (368) | ||
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