{"id":36039,"date":"2012-08-08T17:49:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=36039"},"modified":"2012-08-08T17:49:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T17:49:29","slug":"recycle-bin-automatically-deleting-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/recycle-bin-automatically-deleting-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Dave Taylor: Recycle Bin Automatically Deleting Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/recyclebin.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"recyclebin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36046\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Recycle Bin Automatically Deleting Files<\/h3>\n<p>By Dave Taylor<\/p>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\"><strong>The Question: This is weird. Without me changing anything that I can recall, the Trash on my Windows 7 laptop is now automatically and instantly deleting any files I drag into it, rather than &#8220;archiving&#8221; the contents until I explicitly delete things. I&#8217;ve lost two things already because I went back to pull them out of the Trash just to find it empty. What&#8217;s changed and how the heck do I fix it??<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave&#8217;s Answer: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The way that trash \/ recycle bins on modern computer systems are implemented, they seem to be no more than a folder with a special icon. Drag things into the Trash and it&#8217;ll just sit there until you&#8217;re ready to either really axe &#8217;em or want to recover them. In fact, I sometimes store files in the Trash for a day or two until I&#8217;m sure one of my online services did what I queued it up to do. No worries.<\/p>\n<p>Until it doesn&#8217;t work that way!<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that in Windows you can actually change your Trash from being a storage bin that you can access later to something more akin to a shredder. Drop something in and that&#8217;s it. Gone. Kaput. Sayonara.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it&#8217;s easy to change back, because it sure sounds like that&#8217;s what has happened to your system.<\/p>\n<p>Before I show you, though, let me illustrate a few pointers to identify if this is happening on your own computer. First off, when you drag a file onto the Trash, here&#8217;s what you see, as usual:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.askdavetaylor.com\/8-blog-pics\/instant-delete-trash-win7-1.png\" alt=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But the window that shows up immediately afterwards gives you a clue that somethings&#8217; different. Read it carefully:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.askdavetaylor.com\/8-blog-pics\/instant-delete-trash-win7-2.png\" alt=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;permanently delete&#8221;? Sounds serious. And it is.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, say &#8220;Yes&#8221; and the Trashcan stays empty!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.askdavetaylor.com\/8-blog-pics\/instant-delete-trash-win7-3.png\" alt=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askdavetaylor.com\/fix_recycle_bin_trash_windows_7_instantly_deleting_files.html\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>This post is excerpted with permission from Dave Taylor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:www.askdavetaylor.com\">Sign up for Dave&#8217;s emails<\/a> about free tech support and special offers on books, seminars, workshops and more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p><BR CLEAR=LEFT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/recyclebin.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"recyclebin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36046\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recycle Bin Automatically Deleting Files. 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