I have a Seagate ext. HD with 27GB of personal files and 2 GB of system files; 29 GB in all. Yet when I check the properties of the recycle bin it shows that there are (in the recycle bin) 84GB/31,072 files. I do Empty Recycle Bin and when I check properties again it shows the same 84GB/31,072 files. Why is it that I cannot get rid of them? Thanks in advance.
Right click on Recycle icon and scroll to Empty Bin.
Perhaps you weren't clicking Apply.
Mine is grayed out because it is empty.
Thank you very much for your reply. I actually did the 'empty recycle bin' a dozen times and the 31 thousand files remained where they were. So I decided to 'quick format' the drive and now everything is working fine. Of course, I lost everything on it but I just re-copied all the folders I want to protect. All's well that ends well. I shall now be posting a new thread about copy and replace changed files only.
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