recycle bin

[Guest_imported]

Having got Windows 98 on one disk and Windows 2000 on another, I find that sometimes when emptying the recycle bin in one OS the other is emptied as well. Another thing is that when 2000 empties the bin, 98 does not show the icons in its bin but it does show that items are in it.
Is this notmal or should each OS be independent as far as the recycle bins?

 

[wolluf]

Can't give you a definitive answer - but I get similar behaviour (and I have currently 5 versions of windows installed). I've also got utilities installed which allow 98 to read ntfs filestore & NT to read Fat32 (but not write/update) - and I find for example, emptying 98 recycle bin I get 'access failure' for each of my NTFS partitions - so presume it would empty all recycle bins given the chance (which does seem to happen if I empty win2k bin). So I'm always careful before emptying bin!

 

[Kordau]

I'm pretty sure the "Recycle Bin" is nothing more than a hidden system folder on the root of each partition.

For NTFS partitions the Recycle Bin folder is named "RECYCLER". For FAT and FAT32 partitions it is named "RECYCLED".

"Putting something in the bin" actually does nothing more than move the file into the Recycle Bin folder for that drive. "Emptying the bin" simply deletes everything in the Recycle Bin folder for that drive.

I'm pretty sure there's no OS specific list/table that tracks which stuff in the bin was placed there by which OS... so basically a Recycle Bin for any partition will be accessed and used by any Win OS that can access that partition.

Hope that helps!