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Offline Persevere

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Recycle Bin corrupted
« on: August 31, 2013, 08:09:40 am »
Windows 7 is telling me that my recycle bin has been corrupted. It also says that two filenames (in the bin?) are too long and need to be shortened. When I open the recycle bin there is no sign of these two files.
How do I fix a corrupted recycle bin?  Any ideas would be welcome.

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Re: Recycle Bin corrupted
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2013, 09:18:58 am »
I restored the system to a date before the recycle bin was corrupted and now it's working again.
Now I need to re-install all the Windows and application updates and see which one caused the problem.
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Re: Recycle Bin corrupted
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2013, 05:34:30 pm »
It's easy to repair/fix a corrupted Recycle Bin:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/131294-recycle-bin-corrupted-cannot-delete-file-folder.html

And make sure you restart your computer afterwards.

@Shane:  A good thing to be added to the "Remove Temp Files" ??

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Re: Recycle Bin corrupted
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2013, 08:05:43 pm »
Let me know if it happens again :-)

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@Shane:  A good thing to be added to the "Remove Temp Files" ??

Perhaps, or maybe make a repair just for the recycle bin?

Shane

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Re: Recycle Bin corrupted
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2013, 11:02:00 pm »
How often do you have to fix corrupted Recycle Bins ?

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Re: Recycle Bin corrupted
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2013, 11:36:22 am »
I normally never have to. When it comes up as corrupt it will just empty it and be fixed.

Shane