I cloned my work OS on to an SSD yesterday, and it's working flawlessly but for one issue - the recycle bin. If I try to recycle any file from my desktop (stored on a network share) I get the following error: What I did yesterday was to resize the original partition so that it would fit on the SSD (using Acronis Disk Director boot CD). I then cloned the drive using FarStone DriveClone free as I've had good success with this in the past. Post 1st boot I switched off defragging & indexing and checked TRIM. Things I have tried so far include running chkdsk, sfc, startup repair and deleting the $RECYCLE.BIN folder, but no problems have been detected and nothing has worked. If I can't solve it then I'll either learn to live with it or rebuild the machine, but it's a puzzler. Any ideas?
Not seen that before Is it only on your desktop? Have you tried another user? try another user - if it works, trash your profile and make a new one.
Could try deleting it from the command prompt, failing that maybe one of those programs that delete files on a reboot would clear it.
Hey Shirty, I don't recall ever seeing this before but here are a couple of links that my Google Fu found....... http://www.thewindowsclub.com/recycle-bin-is-corrupted-windows https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2394521 Are you on redirected folders? If so then I doubt an offline removal would work. One last thing to try...... From an elevated command prompt rd /s /q C:\$Recycle.bin Deletes the corrupted Recycle Bin, then just restart Note: swap "C" for any other drive letter, that may have a corrupted Recycle Bin
Protip Margo, the profile is 8 years old now so time for a fresh start. Corky, I can directly delete files OK, its just I can't recycle them. Pookie, tried with no luck - it's got to be profile related. Will post back with success story
I've seen this before, but it was files restored from a True Image backup. I found booting from parted magic (or something similar that has ntfsprogs installed) and running ntfsfix on the drive fixed it. Admittedly the files weren't on a network share.
