Moved my documents to F drive, now I cannot access Recycle Bin

Okay- I'm going to try to explain my problem as cohesively as possible, but it's kind of hard to explain considering I think that I've screwed myself over pretty badly.

My C Drive is almost completely full. In an attempt to free up some space, I moved my "My Documents" folder over to my F drive (I was planning on moving them to the F drive, and then deleting the files from my C drive, thus giving me space). The only problem is that I no longer have a recycle bin, so I can't delete the "My Documents" that was in my C drive- so now I still have no memory in my C drive and can't access my recycle bin to solve this issue.

I tried system restore, but of course that doesn't affect your documents in any way. Hopefully this all makes sense.

Help is heavily appreciated.

Brink said:

Hello RedfangOC, and welcome to Seven Forums.

If your "My Documents" folder was moved over to the F: drive successfully like in the tutorial below, then the files in the folder should have also been moved from C: to F: with nothing left of the "My Documents" folder on C.

User Folders - Change Default Location

Could you give more details about no longer having a Recycle Bin? Was it on the desktop, and now not there???

Desktop Icons - Add or Remove

Hope this helps for now, :)
Shawn

Well, I still have a "My Documents" folder in C:, but only a handfull of personally created folders are there (I don't know why they weren't sent to the recycle bin as well).

As for the recycle bin, I probably should have mentioned that I was using rainmeter. If you don't know what rainmeter is, it basically just lets you customize your desktop using widgets and things like that. Well- my recycle bin was linked to rainmeter somehow, and rainmeter was moved to the F: Drive. When I search for Recycle Bin in my search bar, nothing comes up. When I try to restore the icon using the personalize>change desktop icons procedure, I can't access it.

Like I said, it's really hard to explain because I don't know exactly what I've done. I just wanted to free up some space without upgrading my hard-drive

It didn't work- but it very well could be me doing something wrong. Actually, it most likely is- so I'll fiddle with it a little more. If I can't restore it, I'll just clean up un-needed files by bypassing the recycle bin from now on AND I'LL MAKE SURE THAT THEY SHOULD BE DELETED FIRST!

I'll try to set up a library on my F: Drive so that I can put off buying a new hard-drive a little longer.

Thanks so much for your speedy help!

I have a question: If you rightclick Documents and select Properties, where does it show the folder is located on the Location tab?

If it's anywhere else than C: then what exactly happens when following the steps in Brink's tutorial Option One? User Folders - Restore Default Location - Windows 7 Forums

If there is no Location tab it requires Option Two which also always works.