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Your recipe did fix the recycle bin for the administrative (power) user, but
it remains for the Limited User. In fact when I delete a file on the limited
user account it does not even ask if it is okay to move it to the recycle
bin, it only asks if it is okay to delete it (and the empty bin option is
grayed out). The "delete without moving to the recycle bin" option is NOT
selected. When I first switch to the limited user account it tells me the
recycle bin is corrupted. The trick of finding recycled and deleting its
contents does not work as no recycled folder appears in the cmd window.
"Xenophile" wrote:
> Hey!!! I have been struggling for weeks trying to fix a corrupt Recycle Bin
> that appeared after a disk restore and your recipe finally did the trick.
> Thanks a lot Nightowl!!!
>
> Zenon
>
>
> "Nightowl" wrote:
>
> >
> > >Faith Risa wrote:
> > >
> > >> "Faith Risa" <faith@zendog.nospam.net> wrote in message
> > >>news:OyApfg2eFHA.2736@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > >>
> > >>>Thank you for the messages. I've tried the chkdsk suggestion twice
> > >>>with no luck. I cannot seem to do the other suggestion as I do not
> > >>>know the names of the files which are in the recycle bin. The bin
> > >>>shows zero files but when I add new "trash", it shows 2 items more
> > >>>than what is really in there. Now what? All ideas welcome.
> > >>>Thanks again,
> > >>>Faith
> >
> > Faith, you could try this to see if you can see the names of the mystery
> > files in a Dos box (the bits in brackets just explain what you should
> > see). Don't be put off by the length of this, it's really easy to do.
> >
> > Click Start > run, type cmd, click OK. (Box opens)
> >
> > Type cd C:\recycler <enter> (directory changes to C:\recycler)
> >
> > Type dir /ah <enter> (shows hidden files)
> >
> > You should see 3 entries with <DIR > next to them. One is a dot, one is
> > 2 dots, and one is a very long number, probably starting S-1-5-21. I'm
> > not sure if the name of this file is always the same, so you need to
> > look at your own one.
> >
> > Type cd <the very long number, without these brackets> <enter>
> > (directory changes to C:\recycler\very_long_number)
> >
> > Type dir (you should get a listing of any files in the Recycle Bin)
> >
> > Files in the bin have their names changed and they normally look
> > something like this: Dc22.TTF, for example, is a font file I deleted.
> > But if there are any corrupted files they may look different from that.
> >
> > If you can see them, try deleting them from there:
> >
> > Type del *.* (star-dot-star) <enter>
> > If asked: Are you sure Y/N type y <enter>
> >
> > The type dir <enter> again to see if they're gone.
> >
> > If you can't see them or they won't delete, try doing the whole thing
> > again in Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Hope this helps some.
> >
> > (P.S. In trying this out I just emptied my bin in Dos but when I came
> > back to Windows the bin icon was still showing full and didn't change
> > even with F5 refresh. I fixed it by putting a test file in the bin and
> > then emptying it. Now icon is correct again
🙂
> >
> > --
> > Nightowl
> >
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