The recycle bin is corrupted (solved)

[ChrisGreaves]

I've had the message "The recycle bin is corrupted" popping up on an external drive for some weeks now.
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There is a hidden recycle bin folder for every drive.
You can delete the corrupted one by typing the following into an elevated command prompt
rd /s /q D:\$Recycle.bin
Where D is the letter of the drive you want to delete it from

[HansV]

Thanks, might very well be useful to other Loungers.

I know you know this, but for those not familiar with how to start an "elevated command prompt":
- Click the Start button.
- Click All Programs.
- Click Accessories.
- Right-click Command Prompt and select 'Run as Administrator' from the popup menu.

[ChrisGreaves]

I know you know this,

Yeah. I did it once, then dropped a shortcut onto my QuickLaunch bar

I resolved my original issue a few days ago when, somehow, I managed to track down the entry in the recycle bin, and by reducing each component of the path to a single letter was able to manually remove the offending file.
This morning the problem resurfaced and I couldn't identify the file.
The command line is way better and might, (ahem!) find it's way into a batch file with a FOR statement Real Soon Now.
The ability to purge all recycle bins once a month is SO very tempting.

[JoeP]

Or start an elevated command prompt:
- Go to Start
- Type "cmd" (without the quotation marks) in the Search Bar
- Right click cmd.exe and select "Run as administrator"

Joe