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Can not delete $RECYCLER

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Name: royer
Date: October 13, 2009 at 19:01:51 Pacific
OS: Windows Vista
CPU/Ram: 4 GiGs
Subcategory: Software Problems
Comment:

$RECYCLER and Recycler on each drive .

have this on all hard drives , i delete all ,and they come back is it a bug ?




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Response Number 1
Name: Sabertooth
Date: October 13, 2009 at 19:22:42 Pacific
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Those "system" files are protected & hidden for a purpose, let them be.

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Response Number 2
Name: Rambler
Date: October 14, 2009 at 07:40:23 Pacific
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They're not system files they're folders, and they are your Recycle Bin.


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Response Number 3
Name: royer
Date: October 14, 2009 at 18:34:55 Pacific
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on every hard drive (6 Hard Drives )on the computer ? don't have this on the other computer.?


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Response Number 4
Name: rich1949
Date: October 15, 2009 at 11:51:00 Pacific
Reply:

Since you are seeing the folders on all drives that usually indicates you have the system set to show protected operating system files. If all you have enabled is show hidden files the recover folder is hidden.

As noted they are the recycle bin on the desktop. When you tell windows to clean the files it checks the recycle folder on each drive to find files that were pending deletion. Since all drives are synced to track what is in recycling when you click empty all drives have the folder cleaned out.


Richard


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Response Number 5
Name: royer
Date: October 18, 2009 at 17:11:30 Pacific
Reply:

thank you i will check this out .


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