Recycle Bin has EVERYTHING in it

[The Torrent]

I went to click on empty recycle bin and it was like preparing to delete... 30 gb....80gb...300gb... i clicked cancel.

 

when i opne it its just loads of files.

 

Why has it literally got EVERYTHING in my pc inside it?

 

[Kilrah]

Because you deleted lots of things?

 

This page shows nothing useful, it's the contents that matter...

[r2724r16]

[OddOod]

When was the last time you emptied it? What all files are in it? (sort by size descending)

[BobVonBob]

Because it doesn't. That is showing where the recycle bin is located, not what's in it. Double click on it to actually open it, don't go to properties.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Properties of recycle bin always shows like that, it shows the capacity of the drive/folder the recycle bin is linked to, not how much data is in the recycling bin. Hence why it says space available, not space used.

 

Here's my empty recycling bin:

 

[The Torrent]

2 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Because you deleted lots of things?

 

This page shows nothing useful, it's the contents that matter...

 

2 hours ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Properties of recycle bin always shows like that, it shows the capacity of the drive/folder the recycle bin is linked to, not how much data is in the recycling bin. Hence why it says space available, not space used.

 

Here's my empty recycling bin:

 

 

2 hours ago, OddOod said:

When was the last time you emptied it? What all files are in it? (sort by size descending)

 

2 hours ago, BobVonBob said:

Because it doesn't. That is showing where the recycle bin is located, not what's in it. Double click on it to actually open it, don't go to properties.

Ok ignore the photo, but read my first sentence. I clicked delete and it was like 100gb... 200gb. Ivr only had this pc a year no way I've deleted 500gb+ worth of stuff (I did t let it go the whole way in case it actually deletes all my data but it was biig. I'm only using 400gb on my ssd and that's including windows and several games including rainbow 6 siege.

[OddOod]

Can you give us a pic of what the contents of the bin are?

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 hour ago, The Torrent said:

 

 

 

Ok ignore the photo, but read my first sentence. I clicked delete and it was like 100gb... 200gb. Ivr only had this pc a year no way I've deleted 500gb+ worth of stuff (I did t let it go the whole way in case it actually deletes all my data but it was biig. I'm only using 400gb on my ssd and that's including windows and several games including rainbow 6 siege.

Have you inspected the files in the recycling bin to see what's actually in there? Anything you recognise that you know you haven't deleted?

 

EDIT: Also, are you sure it was reporting GB and not the number of files? 

 

To actually see how large the recycle bin is, go to folder option and enable show hidden items and disable hide protected operating system files. Then go to your C drive and right click $Recycle.bin and select properties. 

[Kilrah]

11 hours ago, The Torrent said:

 Ivr only had this pc a year no way I've deleted 500gb+ worth of stuff (I did t let it go the whole way in case it actually deletes all my data but it was biig. 

Actaully look at the contents and see if it's stuff you did delete or things that shouldn't be there?

[The Torrent]

hmm interesting

 

for some reason there are entire copies of games inside my recycle bin...?

 

wtf how did these get here...

[The Torrent]

ok so i manually removed all of the strange games permanently.

 

Then i checked my recycle bin size.

 

35ish gb ok probably music i deleted at some point or something.

 

 

Right clidk > empty recycle bin

 

how tf did 35gb turn to almost 100?