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[pjeffe]

I was trying to eliminate some dup entries, and I specified the "send to Recycle Bin" option in the delete dialog, but MC appears to have deleted the files completely, and not sent them to the recycle bin!  This was about a dozen CDs that I really don't want to re-rip, so I'm hoping that someone can help me find them, and that MC didn't really just trash them.

This is MC 9.1.316.  My music files are all on a network share, and I checked the recycle bin on both computers (client and server) with no luck.

I know that I could possibly use an undelete tool, but that would be a last resort.  I'm hoping it's just user error and I'm not looking in the right place, or they're hidden, or something else?!

[Matt]

The Recycle Bin may not work as expected with a network share.

Also, it can become full.

Both of these are OS / setting dependent. (MC uses system calls to recycle a file)

[LonWar]

Question,,.,,, If you delete a file off the network does it goto your Recycling Bin?

At work if I delete a file on my Network it's gone.... That maybe the same reason.

[pjeffe]

Question,,.,,, If you delete a file off the network does it goto your Recycling Bin?

I guess not.  I didn't really think about it at the time, but of course it is up to Windows how it treats them, so I guess that's the case.  I always shift-Delete since I rarely want to use the recycle bin, so I guess that's what I get for not thinking it through.  Sigh...

[Chris Shaw]

I've run afoul of this before. Ironically my files are local to my server, but I refer to them by UNC path to make my library portable. I know of several people who do this. It would be cool if MC could maintain its own recycle bin.

[JimH]

We're thinking about writing our own OS.

[xen-uno]

I always thought a "Recently Deleted" list for MC would be nice...handled in the same way Recently Imported is. Not meant for recovery, just for informational purposes (ie Where did that file go?..it was here yesterday).

You should call that new OS "Linux"...has a nice ring to it.

10^-27

[Robert Taylor]

Deleting files off network shares NEVER sends em to the recycle bin on the local machine.

[Chris Shaw]

Does anyone know a workaround for this? If there was a Recycle Bin on the same network share, moving files into it should be virtually instantaneous, shouldn't it?