Post by BuckSkin on Dec 30, 2016 21:18:22 GMT
I think I may have just learned something about the recycle bin that I did not know.
I moved two external hard-drives from one computer to another in order to copy several large files onto them.
One of these drives is used as my primary image storage.
The drives connected right up and I went to work, copying the files; then, I had reason to look in the recycle bin; what a surprise to find all the images I had deleted while the drive was connected to the other computer residing in the recycle bin on the computer I had just connected the drives to.
This led me to believe that the recycle bin and deleting files works somewhat different than what I had assumed.
Before I thoroughly thought things through, I went ahead and emptied the recycle bin; I wish I had left things be and then checked to see where the recycled files showed up when I returned the drive to the original computer; had I not have emptied that bin, I now believe that those files would have disappeared from that recycle bin as soon as I dis-connected the drive and they would have shown back up in the original computer's recycle bin when I plugged the drive back to it.
Instead of a physical trash receptacle in a particular spot, the recycle bin must just be an imaginary place that doesn't really exist.
For what it's worth, I try to keep the recycle bins emptied on all of our computers; it is a lot easier to weed through a couple dozen files and make certain that I do want them permanently gone than it is to face a bin full of a thousand files and wonder if there may be something in there that shouldn't be.
Thanks for reading.
I moved two external hard-drives from one computer to another in order to copy several large files onto them.
One of these drives is used as my primary image storage.
The drives connected right up and I went to work, copying the files; then, I had reason to look in the recycle bin; what a surprise to find all the images I had deleted while the drive was connected to the other computer residing in the recycle bin on the computer I had just connected the drives to.
This led me to believe that the recycle bin and deleting files works somewhat different than what I had assumed.
Before I thoroughly thought things through, I went ahead and emptied the recycle bin; I wish I had left things be and then checked to see where the recycled files showed up when I returned the drive to the original computer; had I not have emptied that bin, I now believe that those files would have disappeared from that recycle bin as soon as I dis-connected the drive and they would have shown back up in the original computer's recycle bin when I plugged the drive back to it.
Instead of a physical trash receptacle in a particular spot, the recycle bin must just be an imaginary place that doesn't really exist.
For what it's worth, I try to keep the recycle bins emptied on all of our computers; it is a lot easier to weed through a couple dozen files and make certain that I do want them permanently gone than it is to face a bin full of a thousand files and wonder if there may be something in there that shouldn't be.
Thanks for reading.
