Point Recycle Bin to another drive

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  1. GWT
    Posts : 58
    Windows 7 Professional x64
       #1

    Point Recycle Bin to another drive


    I have two hard drives. C: drive and a D: drive.

    Is there any way to point the Recycle Bin away from the C:\ drive to the D:\ drive in Windows 7 Professional?

    Thanks
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  2. Posts : 571
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #2

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    • Right-click on the recycle Bin
    • Choose Properties
    • On the Properties sheet you can Disable or Set Custom Sizes for individual drives
    Recycle Bin storage size - Vista Forums


    Hope this helps!
    Last edited by Brink; 31 Dec 2010 at 16:12. Reason: added link
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  3. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #3

    Hello GWT,

    Sorry, but no. Each hard drive will have it's own $Recycle.bin file that it uses.

    Internal HDD's $Recycle.bin file are all linked and display in the main Recycle Bin, where external or removable drive's files are usually deleted permanently and do not enter the Recyle Bin.
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  4. Posts : 5,642
    Windows 10 Pro (x64)
       #4

    There is no reason to move the Recycle Bin. When files are deleted they are not moved nor a write operation performed. The MFT is updated with a "pending" delete thus appears then in the Recycle Bin by Windows Explorer. There is no disk operations other then updating the MFT.
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  5. Posts : 1,814
    XP / Win7 x64 Pro
       #5

    Maybe he leaves a lot of residual files in the recycle bin instead of deleting them and wants to clear some space on his main drive? That's the only reason I can think of someone wanting to move the recycle bin. If so, a better idea might be just to create a folder on the second drive that will act as the recycle bin and to just move all of the files you would have normally deleted into that folder.

    Or, if this is not the reason, then nothing I said matter.
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  6. GWT
    Posts : 58
    Windows 7 Professional x64
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Well the C:/ is a 64GB SSD and there's not a whole lot of room on it.

    Plus I want to minimize writes to it, so I'd want the deleted files pointing to the D:/ drive where if I need to recover (within a short period of time) them later, then I can do so.
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  7. Posts : 5,642
    Windows 10 Pro (x64)
       #7

    Moving the Recycle Bin will not assist with any of that.
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  8. Posts : 6,285
    Windows 10 Pro X64
       #8

    Can't be done. A recycle bin is tied to the drive it's on. Can't work any other way, as logicearth said (sort of).

    You can reduce the size on the recycle bin or turn it off completely. Depends on whether you ever use it or not. I can almost guarantee that as soon as you turn it off you'll delete a file accidentally and wish it was in the recycle bin. Probably some corollary to Murphy's Law.
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  9. GWT
    Posts : 58
    Windows 7 Professional x64
    Thread Starter
       #9

    Ztruker said:
    Can't be done. A recycle bin is tied to the drive it's on. Can't work any other way, as logicearth said (sort of).
    So there nothing that can be done? There's no way around it?

    I have a file I want to delete on D:\ and when I delete it, it will go to the C:\ drive (a write) and produce excessive amounts of writes on the C:\ drive because the Recycle Bin can't be bypassed on C:\ and there are a lot of files (at times) that I wind up deleting. I mean, multi-gigabytes worth.

    You can reduce the size on the recycle bin or turn it off completely. Depends on whether you ever use it or not. I can almost guarantee that as soon as you turn it off you'll delete a file accidentally and wish it was in the recycle bin. Probably some corollary to Murphy's Law.
    No doubt. I was considering that but inevitably that will happen.

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  10. Posts : 5,642
    Windows 10 Pro (x64)
       #10

    No file is written to the C: drive when you delete a file on D: or vise versa.
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