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Mr. Lime
18-12-10, 00:05
So looking at Mrs. Limettes (http://forums.aria.co.uk/member.php?u=14703) computer

shed deleted the short cut to the recycle bin

upon re-doing the short cut

and checking the amount of stuff in there

there was 907 items totalling 9.55GB's

anyone else got any recycle bin horror stories? :)
Jackster
18-12-10, 00:38
I thought you meant the ones you literary put rubbish in xD :chairfall:

I had 50GBs last week when I was deleting allot of videos....
Toonshorty
18-12-10, 00:38
6.6GB the other week for me

:chairfall:
Rhys
18-12-10, 00:41
just cleared 19.3gb :)
Bigian88
18-12-10, 09:56
a cleand up a mates laptop as he hada nasty virus about 2 months ago and he had 49GB of stuff in there, most of it was adult material that he thought he deleted :lol:
cinek
18-12-10, 10:02
had to remove some old stuff, had just over 6GB in the bin :P
Col
18-12-10, 10:42
I thought you meant the ones you literary put rubbish in xD :chairfall:
So did I! D'oh! :chairfall:

I typically don't keep things in my recycle bin though. Probably the most it's ever had in it is when I'm clearing out a load of stuff at once, but then I empty it immediately afterwards. It's never built up over time.

I'm not sure of how big it's got though while doing that, perhaps 30 GB at most if I've been tidying up my folders after working on a graphics project of some sort.
Mokey
18-12-10, 10:45
I usually shift delete things so it rarely gets big at all. Only trouble is when you accidentally get rid of something you wanted...
Spaceboy
18-12-10, 10:58
mine's set to 2gig so it can't grow bigger :p
Bigian88
18-12-10, 11:00
I permanently delete straight away (RB option) so I dont have to worry about sizes :)
Burn-IT
18-12-10, 11:14
Fixed a machine that had 3,274 items in recycle bin and 9,675 in IE cache.
I had to boot to a live CD to clear it.
clemos
18-12-10, 16:58
I always empty it after I delete files. It's not hard to forget in 7 and Vista? as the icon changes from empty to with files in.
jason
18-12-10, 17:20
Having only 60GB on the SSD i clean up my files once a week now.
cinek
18-12-10, 17:28
I run ccleaner every month to clear the junk :)
Lorem-Ipsum
18-12-10, 17:59
I usually shift delete things so it rarely gets big at all.

Same. Or I move things to my /tmp folder on linux as it gets wiped on reboot.