What I would like to know is this: I have deleted all my icons off the desktop and binned them. Now, I can understand why they appear in the recycle bin on my computer itself, but why should they appear in the bin on my external drive? Surely, it would make sense for the bin contents to reflect what has been placed in there directly, in other words the bin on a particular drive should only contain files that have been deleted from that particular drive.
Dwarf: bear with me, I might have worded s/th wrong. I didn't mean to imply that files deleted from your desktop are copied into the recycling bin of your external drive. In fact it shows there only as some form of shortcut (the properties say Origin: Desktop) which leads me to believe that the whole rescue bin structure is somehow connected via junctions/similar constructs.(As I understand it, it's much like symbolic links under Unix)
That would appear to be the case. I have just emptied the bin on my external drive (I only had a single object in it that originated on the external drive) and everything in it was deleted, irrespective of which drive the object originated from.
Nigel I think you've got it: Both bins in the sub-folder are dated/timestamped when I was plugging external into separate computers.
Any ideas as to why the default size limit wasn't enforced?
Not really unless some software you were using did something it shouldn't - I have to assume that the system should be designed to have multiple recycle bins - on a portable drive anyway, but perhaps it's an undisclosed feature caused by the multiple bins.
would be interesting to see how internal drives are treated on systems, when accessed by two operating systems - I seem to remember seeing multiple nested recycle bins on data drives when I had multiple OS's running during the Beta program
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