My recycle bin is empty, but my $RECYCLE.BIN folders are not. Why?
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I have 2 drives on my windows 7 machine. C and D. C is my main drive with the OS, D is a media drive where all my downloads and rips go. My recycle bin is empty, but right now the is 2.5G and the is 6.8G! What exactly are these folders? I figured it's where recycled files live, but if my bin is emp…
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C:\$RECYCLE.BIN
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It could be that those are recycled files from another users. Windows 7 stores each's user recycle bin as a subdirectory. Do notice that, if you did reinstall without formatting drive, you might have "orphaned" user in recycle bin from your previous…
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