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Norton Protected Recycle Bin is the chance of "last recall".
Windows XP disk cleanup does not touch it. Indeed, even a cleanup from
SystemWorks will not touch it. YOU have to make it happen. It is there for
when you screw up and delete something, empty the recycle bin - and then say
"oops"!
There was a fellow who once posted here who wanted to know if he could
recover something emptied from the Norton bin. I guess he wanted a third,
and maybe even a fourth, chance to recover from his continual screw ups. (-:
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to use computers without first passing
a test!
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
"John" <JohnClarry@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u61JAR1vFHA.2164@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Richard ... You are the man!
>
> I tried your suggestion last night and sure enough I recovered about 60GB.
> Such a simple solution. Doh! Can't understand why System works did not
> clean
> this lot out during last scan which is why I did not bother looking there
> before.
>
> Anyway, a big thank you to you for your help. Very much appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> John
>
> PS Thanks too to all other posters. I will go for the defrag now.
>
> "Richard Urban [MVP]" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in
> message
> news:uhp$f8uvFHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> XP is talking about the XP recycle bin. Norton catches what the regular
>> recycle bin does not. Empty the Norton Protected Recycle Bin.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> Quote from: George Ankner
>> "If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
>>
>> "John" <JohnClarry@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23Vq%230CqvFHA.3152@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> > Thanks Richard but XP said the file was too big for the recycle bin. I
>> > think disc clean up takes care of the smaller files.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> > "Richard Urban [MVP]" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in
>> > message
>> > news:ud5XErpvFHA.904@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> >> You have to empty both the regular recycle bin ***AND*** the "Norton
>> >> Protected Recycle Bin" to reclaim the space that was used by the
> deleted
>> >> files.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Regards,
>> >>
>> >> Richard Urban
>> >> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>> >>
>> >> Quote from: George Ankner
>> >> "If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> >> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
>> >>
>> >> "John" <JohnClarry@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:u4$4MCpvFHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> >> >I have a 300GB HD which got quite full as I was mucking about with
> video
>> >> > files. Explorer tells me there is 6GB free. I have tried to free up
>> > some
>> >> > space by deleting some unneeded files but there is no apparent
> increase
>> > in
>> >> > reported free space. I have run Disk cleanup and Norton System
>> >> > works
>> > and
>> >> > a
>> >> > virus scan to no avail.
>> >> >
>> >> > I am running XPSP2 on a 30GB partition of this drive and also have a
>> >> > second
>> >> > HD 120GB.
>> >> >
>> >> > Any advice would be appreciated
>> >> >
>> >> > Regards
>> >> >
>> >> > John
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
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