eml recycle bin

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walt723
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eml recycle bin

Post by walt723 »

Just curious as to why "RECYCLE BIN"i s among the list when I have nothing in my bin and the list contains very old items?
Safe to remove?

How bout a list of all items safe to remove? It would make the search faster?

Great program !
Ron
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Re: eml recycle bin

Post by void »

Thank you for your feedback Ron,

These files can be deleted.
They are left over recycle bin information/data files.



Files in the recycle bin have two physical files on disk:
$r... = the file data.
$i... = the file information. (original name + path)
When you empty the recycle bin, these files are only removed if both the $r and $i file exist.
NotNull
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Re: eml recycle bin

Post by NotNull »

Before deleting these files in the \$RECYCLE.BIN\ folder ....

The \$RECYCLE.BIN\ foldercontains the recycle bins of every user account on this system, not just the one you are currently logged on with.
The S-1-2-3-095877546-like foldernames are the SID's of each user (SID = Security Identifier)

To find out which SID belongs to which user, run the following command in CMD:

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wmic.exe useraccount get SID, Name
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