Comments for I accidentally deleted my Recycle Bin, but got to thinking: do I even need a Recycle Bin?

Comment from Tabatha on 2011-04-26

2011-04-26T22:08:29Z

I have read the article and more, but I still want to know why I lost ALL the contents of my recycle bin (not just the older ones) - it just took everything (old and recent) and left only .bak files of all my e-mail folders, which I'd deleted several weeks ago from My Documents. Hundreds of photos had been deleted from My Pictures much later than those .bak files and they're gone. Properties shows I have 27% disc space. My question is why did it take all the deletions of photos and documents and not just take the oldest to make room for the newest? And yet leave backups of email folders which were deleted long before the photos? The reason I am bothered is because I was moving photos out of My Pictures onto another computer to sort them before transferring to an online site. Being careful not to duplicate I deleted some of them from My Pictures as I did this - but then I planned on going back to the photos to get the captions off. It couldn't all be done at once. I'd been doing this for 2 wks and it was going great until this empty bin appears. I feel it should have taken the e-mail backups and left many of the recent documents.

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Comment from Tony Martin on 2008-12-23

2008-12-23T19:56:10Z

I don't remember ever recovering anything from the recycle bin and I have been using PC's since my first 286.

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Comment from Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed on 2008-12-23

2008-12-23T19:47:10Z

I think it is important anyway.

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