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07-03-2013, 03:16 AM
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I notice some of my hard drives have this after making a fresh reformatting or formatting a blank drive, that some have a folder labeled $RecycleBin, and some of the drives I formatted do not have this folder.

Do all new hard drives formatted to NTFS need to have this $recyclebin folder on/in them?
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07-03-2013, 01:53 PM
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No. This folder is used by Windows to manage files/folders that have been moved to the recycle bin but not "deleted". It is an OS-specific folder and having an NTFS volume without it is completely legit.
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07-17-2013, 09:56 PM
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If you plan to use this on Mac only, you can delete Windows-only folders. I do.

Inversely, you can do the same for Mac folders on a Window computer.

On a thumb drive, I nuke them all! No need for OS files on a temporary thumb drive.

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