Recycle Bin

Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)

With more than one physical disc or with more than one partition on a
disc, I recall setting where a common recycle (trash) bin should be
located. I cannot remember how to do this. Was this only a Windows XP
capability? Or can I do this with Windows 7, and if so how?

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David E. Ross

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The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia.
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On 12/29/2014 10:15 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)

With more than one physical disc or with more than one partition on a
disc, I recall setting where a common recycle (trash) bin should be
located. I cannot remember how to do this. Was this only a Windows XP
capability? Or can I do this with Windows 7, and if so how?


I am NOT asking about the Recycle Bin icon. I have two physical discs.
One is a 900GB spinner with a large partition (D-drive) and small
recovery partition (F-drive). The other is a 100GB solid-state drive
(SSD) with two approximately equal partitions (C-drive and J-drive).
The SSD is almost full, but the spinner has over 700GB of free space.
Thus, I want a single actual Recycle Bin on D-drive that serves for C,
D, and J; if necessary, it can also serve F.

--
David E. Ross

The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland.
The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia.
See http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html.

David E. Ross wrote:
On 12/29/2014 10:15 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)

With more than one physical disc or with more than one partition on a
disc, I recall setting where a common recycle (trash) bin should be
located. I cannot remember how to do this. Was this only a Windows XP
capability? Or can I do this with Windows 7, and if so how?


I am NOT asking about the Recycle Bin icon. I have two physical discs.
One is a 900GB spinner with a large partition (D-drive) and small
recovery partition (F-drive). The other is a 100GB solid-state drive
(SSD) with two approximately equal partitions (C-drive and J-drive).
The SSD is almost full, but the spinner has over 700GB of free space.
Thus, I want a single actual Recycle Bin on D-drive that serves for C,
D, and J; if necessary, it can also serve F.


If you have multiple hard drives, partitions, or an external hard drive
connected to your computer, each location will have its own Recycle Bin
settings.

If you don't wish to see the "$RECYCLE.BIN" system folder when viewing
in Windows Explorer ensure Windows Explorer is configured to 'Hide
protected operating system files'

qp
Having a single recycle bin for multiple drives or partitions would
require physically moving the files to the drive with the bin folder
every time you delete or restore files from a different partition. With
larger files or folders that can become quite time consuming, especially
compared with merely hiding the files where they sit and reindexing
their location to show them being in the recycle bin folder.
/qp

What you want (one Recycle Bin), afiak is not achievable.

If the SSD is almost full, it would be prudent to start moving or
relocating data (User profile folder Documents and including its
subfolders can be relocated) to the 900GB drive. If your installed
software base on the SSD is the problem then it might be time to
consider a larger SSD.

For comparison: On Win7 Pro x64 my entire software base (Windows, Office
13 Pro, Acronis 2015, iTunes, Adobe, Windows Essentials, Skype,
OneDrive, security software -resident and 3rd party tools, over two
dozen utilities, 2 Media Players, Media Center, Flash, Java, two
versions of Turbo Tax (current and prior year), Printer software and
hardware specific application programs/utilities consume 58 GB of my
120GB SSD. All my data resides on a different 1TB Sata 'spinner' drive.

--
....winston
msft mvp consumer apps

"David E. Ross" wrote in message

Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)

With more than one physical disc or with more than one partition on a
disc, I recall setting where a common recycle (trash) bin should be
located. I cannot remember how to do this. Was this only a Windows XP
capability? Or can I do this with Windows 7, and if so how?

You can't do it from Vista on without 3rd party software.
http://www.addictivetips.com/windows...-bin-into-one/

About the best you can do is set the size of the recycle bin for each
drive.

--

dadiOH
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David E. Ross wrote:
On 12/29/2014 10:15 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)

With more than one physical disc or with more than one partition on a
disc, I recall setting where a common recycle (trash) bin should be
located. I cannot remember how to do this. Was this only a Windows XP
capability? Or can I do this with Windows 7, and if so how?


I am NOT asking about the Recycle Bin icon. I have two physical discs.
One is a 900GB spinner with a large partition (D-drive) and small
recovery partition (F-drive). The other is a 100GB solid-state drive
(SSD) with two approximately equal partitions (C-drive and J-drive).
The SSD is almost full, but the spinner has over 700GB of free space.
Thus, I want a single actual Recycle Bin on D-drive that serves for C,
D, and J; if necessary, it can also serve F.


When each partition has its own recycle bin,
it allows movement to the recycle bin by using
pointer movement only. Say a file has 10,000
clusters and a 1K $MFT entry. When you ask the file
to be put in trash, just the 1K entry needs some sort
of change. The 10,000 data clusters of 4KB each
stay exactly where they are. A file movement that
stays on the same partition, ends up being virtually
free.

If you were to have a common area for "recycle", shared
over many partitions, then the 10,000 clusters would
have to be moved to that thing. Which would be pretty
slow. It's still a nice concept, but makes deleting
as slow as writing the file in the first place
would have been.

There are users out there, who consider the "Recycle Bin"
a form of secondary storage. And they hold important items
in there, for unexplained reasons. The intention of the
Recycle Bin, is temporary safety, so you have a second
chance to think about what you're doing. Like a drag
and drop accident, doesn't mean immediate file loss.

It's possible to highlight the trash can, and set the
policy on it. You can have the default "delayed delete"
action. Or you can also configure it for immediate
delete. Things like USB sticks, you might find them
(for some reason) doing immediate delete. And you
can select that as a deliberate policy. Doing so, means
"never wasting any space on it". But it also requires
accurate mousing, so you don't delete something quite
by accident.

Paul

On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 06:18:25 -0500, Paul wrote:
It's possible to highlight the trash can, and set the
policy on it. You can have the default "delayed delete"
action. Or you can also configure it for immediate
delete.


And you can turn the delete confirmation prompt on or off.

I run with the default "delayed delete" action, but with no
confirming prompt, since I can just Ctrl+Z if I delete the wrong
thing by accident. (If I realize later, I can just open the Recycle
Bin and do a restore.)

Sometimes I'm certain I want to delete a particular file, like a big
media file, without going through the Recycle Bin. Then, I do
Shift+Delete. I then get a special confirmation prompt asking if I'm
sure. As far as I know, that prompt can't be turned off, but I
wouldn't want to turn it off if I could.

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