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| Thread ID: 75869 | 2007-01-13 03:50:00 | Recycle Bin developed a mind of its own | Laura (43) | Press F1 |
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| 515387 | 2007-01-13 03:50:00 | I was surprised to notice my Recycle Bin was empty, but as I've been slack about doing majorclean-ups recently, decided I must've forgotten emptying it. So I've just done a biggie - heaps of temp files etc - including a couple of videos from the old hard disk saved in this machine from my previous one (Audited E). Now I see that the Recycle Bin contains those only. Obviously something has changed to make the R/B empty itself automatically, but only of stuff deleted from C drive. I used ccleaner this time, but also have EasyCleaner, so may have used that last time. Do I look first in those software settings or elsewhere to change this? (Too risky to keep it that way) XP HomeSP2 |
Laura (43) | ||
| 515388 | 2007-01-13 04:33:00 | Bit unclear here. You deleted some files and they are now in the Recycle Bin, but only the files you deleted from the C drive are in it? The files from the other drive are not? You should look at the settings of both your cleaning applications and see if they have "empty recycle bin" on shutdown or similar set. For an experiment, you could reboot the machine now and then see if the files are still in the Recycle Bin. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 515389 | 2007-01-13 06:06:00 | Sorry I didn't make myself clear enough, Jen. I deleted files from the C drive (lots) and E drive (only 3) The Recycle Bin shows only the 3 from E. Several reboots show no change. I haven't yet had time to search for the "Empty... on shutdown" settings on the 2 cleaning programs yet. (I'm aware such things exist somewhere, but have never ticked them) But if that's that's the cause, wouldn't it have deleted everything - not just from one drive? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 515390 | 2007-01-13 07:23:00 | An update - But firstly, a mea culpa... I was being dense about why a cleaner deleted from only i drive. I'd forgotten that I'd made the old E drive deletions manually. Grrrr. As for my 2 cleaners- EasyCleaner has 2 delete options: 1) Recycle Bin 2) Permanent delete Recycle Bin is chosen. I have searched ccleaner without success for an "Empty R/C...on shutdown" or similar setting. There are options to add it to the Recycle Bin etc but not what I'm looking for. Anyone else with better eyes? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 515391 | 2007-01-13 08:44:00 | Laura, if I may be so bold, I would never have auto deleting at shut down from the recycle bin, IMHO that is a recipe for disaster. Many times I have been saved by the two step process inherent within the Windows recycle bin. For instance if one deletes more than one file from the desktop and uses shift whilst selecting more than one to save time, will also select all the icons on the lines selected, it is very easy to delete shortcuts off the desktop inadvertently in this way without even noticing, try it if you don't believe me. Now, adding ccleaner shortcuts to the recycle bin (a good idea) means that at shutdown time one can open the bin, check that nothing valued is going forever then right click and run ccleaner thus emptying the bin and cleaning the computer to the level you require, at least that is how I do it. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 515392 | 2007-01-13 12:14:00 | zqwerty: I couldn't agree with you more that such auto-deleting at shutdown is a recipe for disaster. I've never wanted that to happen, so have carefully steered away from that option - or so I thought until now. But the non-appearance of stuff which should have been in my Recycle Bin after a big clean-up is what prompted this thread. I wondered if some setting had been accidentally changed to auto-delete - and if so, how to get rid of it. (Note the last line in my first post - "Too risky to keep it that way.") I am in fact very cagey about deletions & occasionally some files stay in the Bin for ages until I'm sure they can be safely dumped. A real expert would probably call me over-cautious, but I'm aware that fingers can slip sometimes.... The only reason I want to know the whereabouts of such a ccleaner setting is to make sure it hasn't become ticked in error. Thanks for your concern. And I'm still wondering. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 515393 | 2007-01-13 13:21:00 | Very large files which are deleted do not show in the recycle bin but I am used to getting a warning if this is going to happen, the warning is something about ~ "the files being deleted are too big for the recycle bin and so will be deleted without appearing in the bin" maybe this is what has occurred in your case, do you remember this warning. I can't see any option in ccleaner to delete bin at shutdown only when the cleaner is run. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 515394 | 2007-01-13 16:22:00 | If I read this question correctly, what comes to mind is a change in default settings for CCleaner. There are options to let it run at START-UP, and then you could have it toggled to clear out the Recycle Bin at that time too... It's all there in the settings area.... Open CCleaner and in: CLEANER, check to see if (in WINDOWS TAB) down in the SYSTEM, you have EMPTY RECYCLE BIN checked or not. Take your choice here. Then, in OPTIONS>>RUN WHEN COMPUTER STARTS has an option there too. I don't like to have that checked...it slows the boot time a lot and I want control of the RECYCLE BIN myself. I cannot remember any version that had CCleaner run at shutdown, only start-up. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 515395 | 2007-01-13 20:21:00 | I cannot remember any version that had CCleaner run at shutdown, only start-up.When I asked about that option (or similar) I wasn't saying that CCleaner actually had it - just something like that could do it. Laura, how are you deleting the files from the C drive? Manually? Create a document on the C drive and save it. Now delete it as per normal. Watch very carefully the wording of the confirmation message. If it says: Are you sure you want to send <filename> to the Recycle Bin? - then check to see if the delete file is now in the Recycle Bin. If it said: Are you sure you want to delete filename? - then the file will bypass the Recycle Bin. If you got the later message, then right click on the Recycle Bin > Properties. Make sure the "Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted" check box is clear. Click OK. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 515396 | 2007-01-13 22:05:00 | Hi Laura. Wild card - but is you keyboard all awell? The only time I had files delete completely was when I had several sticky keys. If the Shift key is held down or stuck when you press the delete key you get the second of Jen's suggested responses. | Scouse (83) | ||
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