Re: Maximum Recycle Bin size

[D. Spencer Hines]

Bingo!

"Vagabond Software" > wrote in message
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> "cosmin" > wrote in message

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>> Is it me or Windows doesn't allow me any Recycle Bin to be bigger than 4
>> GB, no matter what percentage you set it to be? I got burned severely
>> just today, when 29 Gb of files got deleted and there was no way to get
>> them back.
>
> What your setting in the Recycle Bin in the maximum "possible" size of the
> container. If you click on the local drive tab of the Recycle Bin
> properties, you can see the actual size of the container, which is
> probably 3.99 GB.
>
> I think you'll find that when you try and delete a file that exceeds the
> size of the Recycle Bin, you'll be presented with a "Delete" confirmation
> dialog. When you click "Yes", the file is deleted, not placed in the
> Recycle Bin.
>
> carl

[cosmin]

I didn't delete them. There were lots of small (10-50 MB) files. I used a
program that checks for files older than.... and it has an option to move
files that meet the criteria to the Recycle Bin. So it started moving them,
but as it moved them, the Recycle Bin filled up so Windows progressively
cleared the files from the Recycle Bin as the new ones got moved.
But this wouldn't have happened if the Recycle Bin worked as advertised. I
mean, one of the first things I do when I install Windows is to set the
Recycle Bin to 50% using the "Global->Use one Setting for all drives". where
it says that the maximum size of the Bin for each drive is 50% for each
drive." That's why I'm ****ed off. The partition in question being 48 GB and
the Recycle Bin being set to 50% for all partitions, you'd think it would be
24 GB, not 4.

"D. Spencer Hines" > wrote in message
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> Bingo!
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> "Vagabond Software" > wrote in message
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>> "cosmin" > wrote in message
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>>> Is it me or Windows doesn't allow me any Recycle Bin to be bigger than 4
>>> GB, no matter what percentage you set it to be? I got burned severely
>>> just today, when 29 Gb of files got deleted and there was no way to get
>>> them back.
>>
>> What your setting in the Recycle Bin in the maximum "possible" size of
>> the container. If you click on the local drive tab of the Recycle Bin
>> properties, you can see the actual size of the container, which is
>> probably 3.99 GB.
>>
>> I think you'll find that when you try and delete a file that exceeds the
>> size of the Recycle Bin, you'll be presented with a "Delete" confirmation
>> dialog. When you click "Yes", the file is deleted, not placed in the
>> Recycle Bin.
>>
>> carl
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