I've tried every method i could find to fix this, including deleting $.recycle.bin in windows, under administrative rights.

 

however, I just keep getting permission errors, or no errors, and no results.

 

how do i permanently delete M:\$.recycle.bin from my drive?

What methods have you tried? So wr don't go on repeating suggestions that have been tried with no success

 

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simply deleting the folder results in it coming right back.  On the M:\$.recycle.bin folder it complains i don't have permission to do anything with it, either rename or delete.

 

I tried an elevated cmd prompt with rd -s -q m:\$.recycle.bin, and got no complaints when i ran it, but it won't delete the file.  i suspect a permissions issue, and will try chmod and chown on it now.

 

That's all I've come up with so far

Probably just asking the obvious, but have you disabled the Recycle Bin for this drive in Windows Recycle Bin configuration?

nope, didn't know I could.  Where?

Right click on the Recycle Bin icon on the Desktop, and select Properties.  There should be a way to indicate you do not want files moved to the Recycle Bin, for each drive.

I can see the dialog, and an tell it not to keep/move files to the bin per share, but it still isn't letting me delete the $RECYCLE.BIN folders from the shares, and it's not showing $RECYCLE.BIN for all the shares, just some of them.

 

So, I'm not sure why/how only some of my shares have this file, and I still cannot make it go away

 

It shows these folders on all the machines in the workgroup, so it seems to be a network setting somewhere, but I can't figure out where.  I'm not seeing anything in unRAID, nor in windows, nor with Google.

I just registered to this forum to answer your problem.

 

I had the same problem as you. Even with Administrator rights i couldnt remove the directory. Even by elevating the rights, i get permissions errors.

 

The next thing you should do is. Turn UAC off and restart your computer and run into Save mode. Delete the corrupted recycle.bin with windows explorer.

 

Restart your computer, and voila windows 7 makes a fresh new one, without being damaged.

 

hf

thank you for taking the time to register just to help me, i really do appreciate that!

 

your method works to delete the 'bad' version of the file, and a new/usable version was created in it's place.

 

however, I really want to remove the folder altogether.  i don't want to see $RECYCLE.BIN under any of my shares, at all, whether it works correctly or not.  I just want it gone for good.

 

Any idea how that can be done?

Try this..it sounds like you might have accidentally added the shares to the recycle bin "locations".

 

Open the file explorer, navigate to the share in question that has the recycle bin, and right click in the empty space, click on "properties". See if there is a "Locations" tab at the top,  if so, go to that tab and click on "Restore Default" and press ok. Do not move all files to new location(choose the No option). You may have to reboot into safe mode again to delete the recycle bin one last time.

You are the MAN!!!

 

That seems to have done the trick.  I have no idea how that got jacked up, but it seems to be fixed now.  I checked by r-click the recycle bin and the share locations aren't shown there any more now, and after several minutes, they have not been recreated under the shares, so it seems resolved.

 

Thank you!!!!

Good to hear! I was thinking about your issue and remembered the work around I use to use so that my network shares did use the recycle bin. If you take any folder out of the C:\Users\username\ and change its "location" to the network drive, it is "protected" by the recycle bin. Really just a way to trick Windows into using a recycle bin where it doesn't want to. Obviously this comes with some pitfalls, the recycle bin can become corrupt quite easily.

 

Took me a little bit to remember the work around, but my GoogleFu was strong, and now (hopefully) we have the fix,

Took me a little bit to remember the work around, but my GoogleFu was strong, and now (hopefully) we have the fix,

 

The force is strong with you, my GoogleFu didn't get me anything useful in several attempts.

 

Thank you again, I really appreciate it!

Took me a little bit to remember the work around, but my GoogleFu was strong, and now (hopefully) we have the fix,

 

The force is strong with you, my GoogleFu didn't get me anything useful in several attempts.

 

Thank you again, I really appreciate it!

 

Like I said, its basically a hack to get Windows to do something it doesn't want to do. It takes a pretty specific search to bring it up, .

So, yesterday I wiped and reinstalled windows again.  Part of that process was 'moving' the library items to the unRAID shares, since that is where I actually keep all my music and photos, etc.

 

Turns out, this action is what caused the $RECYCLE bins to show up.  As soon as I finished moving them, they unwanted recycle bins were back.  Moving them back to their original location let me delete them again, per the instructions above.

 

I guess I'll just hack the registry to remove the Library from showing in windows explorer, since it's empty.

 

Just thought I'd update, since I discovered the cause of the problem.

 

Thanks again for the help!

I had a similar problem and this was the fix. Whenever you would map any drive on this machine to “O:” it would create a secondary recycle bin underneath the recycle bin properties and then give you the error Recycle Bin on O:\foldername\example\destination is corrupted, do you want to empty the recycle bin. None of the other solutions in this thread fixed it, but it is a slightly different error. This happened only with the O: drive and mapping a different letter resolved the problem (as a work around)

 

To fix this, you have to disconnect the drive in question (O:) and then get in to regedit. Review the following keys:

 

HKLM\Current User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer

 

In here, check “Stream MRU” “User Shell Folders” “Run MRU” and “Shell Folders”

 

In each of these locations I found a reference to the path in this error message. These keys can be deleted. It was forcing Windows in to thinking these were local files instead of network files on the O: share and trying to create a recycle bin for them. At this point you can re-map the drive without having it add a secondary recycle bin location.  (you can verify by right-clicking recycle bin and choosing properties)