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$RECYCLE.BIN Takes Up Loads Of Space! Help!
Hello all:
I was going through cleaning out my external hard drives and discovered a hidden file called $RECYCLE.BIN that was taking up a few gigs that I really need back. I asked my tech-savvy boyfriend about it and he said that something was corrupted and that I essentially needed to reformat the hard drive. The attached pic shows the structure of the file. Buried deep I am finding files that I've deleted not long ago (or at least thought I deleted). I've run into this before and deleted the contents of the file, but it nearly rendered my hard drive unusable. So is there any way to fix this? Before, I just deleted the contents of $RECYCLE.BIN, but I'm thinking if I just delete the actual files that I thought I had deleted (for example, a VIDEO_TS file) that I may just get away with it. Any thoughts, suggestions or help is very much appreciated!
See attached file!