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Recycle bin.
When files are deleted from a USB thumb drive, these don't appear in
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Recycle bin.
Peter Jason wrote:
When files are deleted from a USB thumb drive, these don't appear in the recycle bin. Is this normal? Yes, normal. That's how it works. "Be careful when working with USB sticks" Print that on your Label Maker and affix to the stick :-) ******* Moving files on a USB stick, is going to use some amount of Flash write cycles. That's why they likely made that choice to immediately delete and just flip the bit in the $MFT to make it happen. Rather than waste Flash life by doing the usual intermediate steps. Using your favorite "UnErase" program, you can bring them back if you want. As long as you have not done a lot of writes since. Note that USB sticks come with RMB=0 and RMB=1, so if someone writes in right now and says "hey, that's not how my USB stick works", yes, it's possible for the converse to happen. For the feature to work. Maybe Uwes page has more info ? Look for "RMB". https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html Paul |
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Recycle bin.
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 21:53:52 -0400, Paul
wrote: Peter Jason wrote: When files are deleted from a USB thumb drive, these don't appear in the recycle bin. Is this normal? Yes, normal. That's how it works. "Be careful when working with USB sticks" Print that on your Label Maker and affix to the stick :-) ******* Moving files on a USB stick, is going to use some amount of Flash write cycles. That's why they likely made that choice to immediately delete and just flip the bit in the $MFT to make it happen. Rather than waste Flash life by doing the usual intermediate steps. Using your favorite "UnErase" program, you can bring them back if you want. As long as you have not done a lot of writes since. Note that USB sticks come with RMB=0 and RMB=1, so if someone writes in right now and says "hey, that's not how my USB stick works", yes, it's possible for the converse to happen. For the feature to work. Maybe Uwes page has more info ? Look for "RMB". https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html Paul Many thanks; I've stored this for future reference. |
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