Sometimes these become corrupt during a system crash or server reboot if the user is logged in during the reboot process.
Windows 7 - Vista creates these 3 folders on Home Network drives when the user logs in to the network for the first time. On the server where the user files are located you must make sure they have the correct permissions on the directories where the recycle bin files are located. This is getting off topic now but if you want to start or maybe there is an "old DOS or CMD topic we could do,and I would be happy to contribue 35 years of geekness to it.Īlso there are 'hidden commands' that will not be listed mostly used by programmersĪssuming the recycling bin files are actually on a mapped drive / home drive
NOTE: if you don't have total admin-rights you won't be able to use many of the commands and so are very dangerous to the non informed, thats why they are where they are, amongst other reasons,
in this case C:\> rd /? or you could type C:>\ help rd and a list of all the flags (Swiches) will pop up you can type C:\>help and get a list of every command available here's a sampleįor more information on a specific command, type HELP command-nameĪSSOC Displays or modifies file extension associations.ĪTTRIB Displays or changes file attributes.īREAK Sets or clears extended CTRL+C checking.īCDEDIT Sets properties in boot database to control boot loading.ĬACLS Displays or modifies access control lists (ACLs) of files.ĬALL Calls one batch program from another.ĬD Displays the name of or changes the current directory.ĬHCP Displays or sets the active code page number.ĬHDIR Displays the name of or changes the current directory.ĬHKDSK Checks a disk and displays a status report. if you ever need to know that info just type this Not a problem I used to teach DOS classes back in the day for Dell computer co. Thanks LH for your Help sorry it didn't work but at least it got me to thinking more of a way to fix the problem and I got a couple of cool utilities out of it. NOTE OF WARNING: if you do this everthing in your recycle bin will be deleted permantly Then you need to go back and find out for sure what your folder name is. If you type in the wrong name you will get "The system cannot find the file specified."
Then reboot, Windows automatically makes a new empty recycle bin:įor those with other OS's you need to know the name of you recycle bin it could be recycled or recycler check your properties tab for the recyle bin folder for the folder name then go to command prompt and just substitute the correct name (Actually as long as you specify the root it probably wont matter but It's quicker cuz the path is shorter to find actually it's instananeous once you hit the enter buttonĬ:\$Recycle.Bin, Are you sure (Y/N)? y (hit enter) So what I did was go to the command prompt, made sure I wast at the root = C:\ and just removed the folder (directory) the old fashioned way
OK Solution Found: The registry cleaner did not work because the recycler error message popped up every time it tried to repair the registry.