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June 27th 07, 05:00 PM
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recycle bin
Hi, Need.
Until you delete something that won't fit in the remaining space. Then enough older items are permanently deleted to make room for the new. I don't know how Vista decides WHICH older items to dump: the oldest? the biggest? RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64) "need to know" need to wrote in message ... How long do items stay in the recycle bin for? 
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June 27th 07, 06:50 PM
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Not quite true,
They stay there until you empty it, or it runs out of the space you or Vista defaults have chosen. "R. C. White" wrote in message ... Hi, Need. Until you delete something that won't fit in the remaining space. Then enough older items are permanently deleted to make room for the new. I don't know how Vista decides WHICH older items to dump: the oldest? the biggest? RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64) "need to know" need to wrote in message ... How long do items stay in the recycle bin for?
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June 27th 07, 10:17 PM
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recycle bin
It depends on how much space you allocate for the Recycle Bin. The recycle
bin works a bit different than it did in XP. In XP you set the size as a percentage of the total disk space, the default was 10 percent. But hard drives have gotten so large, that this meant the amount of space allocated to the recycle bin could be 50GB on a 500GB hard drive. Vista has changed this so that the user can set the amount of allocated space in Megabytes. The default setting is approximately 5%. You can set the allocated space by right clicking the Recycle Bin and selecting Properties. If you have multiple drives/partitions, you can set the amount of allocated space for each drive/partition. According to the testing that I have done, if you attempt to delete a file that is a lot larger than the allocated space, you will get a message that the file cannot be moved to the RB and you will be given an option to permanently delete the file. There is a buffer that allows the allocated space to be exceeded, but this varies and only seems to work if you are deleting small files. Once the allocated space is exceeded, files may be removed from the RB without any warning. The files that are removed appear to be the oldest files in the RB, so it is a FIFO action. (First In, First Out) Be warned, this behavior is not always predictable! I have set the allocated space to 300MB and then deleted 4 files that are each 100MB and 3 of the files were moved to the RB, but the 4th file was permanently deleted, without any warning. Since I depend heavily on the RB, I usually set the allocated space to a high amount, like 10% of the free space on the drive. YMMV. -- Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User "need to know" need to wrote in message ... How long do items stay in the recycle bin for?
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