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Empty Recycle Bin and files found by Treesize

Aketus Posted messages 20 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
Aketus Posted messages 20 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello,

I am on Windows 10 and I use Treesize from time to time to manage my disk space. I currently have 45 GB free out of 237 GB; I don’t know what free disk space limit is necessary for my computer to stay efficient with software like Photoshop.

While searching for large files with Treesize, it shows two files, 1.5 GB each! (identified as C:\$Recycle.Bin\S-1-5-21-3914698212-1569796820-2605264165-1001\$RPAKY6W\...) which should be in the Recycle Bin, yet it is empty. I even ran disk cleanup via Windows.

Is this a Treesize error? Is this space actually occupied on the disk?

Thank you for your help and advice


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    brucine Posted messages 24843 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169
     

    Hello,

    The culprit is probably the recycle bin space (right-click on it, Properties, there are settings for each disk or partition).

    If you know what you’re doing, set it to a custom size, max 1 MB, do not move and delete immediately.

    The consequence is that you don’t recover what you put in the recycle bin, but then again, in everyday life, you generally don’t try to recover what you’ve put in the trash either.

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  3. Aketus Posted messages 20 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    Thank you brucine for your response.

    I want to keep my recycle bin active to be able to recover a file deleted by mistake.

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  4. Aketus Posted messages 20 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    Thank you Panth33ra for your help, but I would need advice on how to use this software to solve my problem.

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    1. brucine Posted messages 24843 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 169
       

      Partition Master will allow cleaning up space occupied by other things than the system partition (un or poorly allocated spaces, recovery partitions...) but not what is contained inside the system partition itself.

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  6. Aketus Posted messages 20 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    OK, thank you brucine.

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  7. Aketus Posted messages 20 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    I managed to solve my problem, your responses put me on a path that allowed me to get rid of the deleted files that were still kept in the Recycle Bin folder.

    Thank you again

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