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Sossity

07-03-2013 03:16 AM

Blank hard drives formatted to NTFS $recycle bin folder?

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?

Tuco	07-03-2013 01:53 PM

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.

lordsmurf

07-17-2013 09:56 PM

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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