Recycle Bin 3.99Gb limit

maltesebudgie

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Oct 27, 2004, 12:19:05 PM10/27/04

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Does anyone know how to increase the 3.99Gb limit on the Recycle Bin? I have
a 120Gb drive but if I cannot get the Recycle bin to hold more than 3.99Gb.

Jay

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Oct 27, 2004, 12:27:07 PM10/27/04

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On 27.10.2004 11:19, maltesebudgie wrote:

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> Does anyone know how to increase the 3.99Gb limit on the Recycle Bin? I have
> a 120Gb drive but if I cannot get the Recycle bin to hold more than 3.99Gb.

Right-Click on "Recycle Bin", select "Properties", move slider accordingly.

Paul Smith

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Oct 27, 2004, 12:23:56 PM10/27/04

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"maltesebudgie" <maltes...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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If you're using FAT32 you can't. As 4GB is the maximum file size.

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Will Denny

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Oct 27, 2004, 12:27:58 PM10/27/04

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Hi

Right click the Recycle Bin icon on the Desktop and select Properties. The
default setting is 10%, so you should be able to delete more than 3.99 GBs
with a 120 GB drive.

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David Candy

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Oct 27, 2004, 12:39:46 PM10/27/04

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Are you sure it doesn't. It stores it as a percentage but if it uses a 32 bit number to display the max size then 4.99GiByte is the max it can show. If it uses a 32 bit number top calculate the size it uses then nothing you can do. Try deleting 5 gb of files and see if it exceeds 3.99 GB.

3.99GiBytes is the maximun for an unsigned 32 bit integer (2 gig if a signed int, meaning it can be a negative number, as hard drives show on 95).
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Ron Bogart

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Oct 27, 2004, 10:05:51 PM10/27/04

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In news:2B7A7245-4D3C-4BE1...@microsoft.com,
maltesebudgie <maltes...@discussions.microsoft.com> did some thinking
and came up with these words:

> Does anyone know how to increase the 3.99Gb limit on the Recycle Bin?
> I have a 120Gb drive but if I cannot get the Recycle bin to hold more
> than 3.99Gb.

I can't make sense out of this? Are you wanting to use the Recycle Bin for
a storage area?

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Alex Nichol

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Oct 28, 2004, 10:16:22 AM10/28/04

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Will Denny wrote:

>
>Right click the Recycle Bin icon on the Desktop and select Properties. The
>default setting is 10%, so you should be able to delete more than 3.99 GBs
>with a 120 GB drive.

No - it won't allow more than 3.99 to be set, even on an NTFS drive.

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Alex Nichol

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Oct 28, 2004, 10:18:00 AM10/28/04

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David Candy wrote:

>Are you sure it doesn't. It stores it as a percentage but if it uses a 32 bit number to display the max size then 4.99GiByte is the max it can show. If it uses a 32 bit number top calculate the size it uses then nothing you can do. Try deleting 5 gb of files and see if it exceeds 3.99 GB.

It will not allow any larger setting (even on NTFS). But it does seem
to me that this is way more than enough unless someone wants to delete
several movies without thinking

David Candy

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Oct 28, 2004, 12:01:32 PM10/28/04

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Have you confirmed that it won't hold more than 3.99 Gig. It could be a display problem I was going to try but couldn't find enough files that were big enough.

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Alex Nichol

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Oct 29, 2004, 5:39:03 AM10/29/04

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David Candy wrote:

>Have you confirmed that it won't hold more than 3.99 Gig. It could be a display problem I was going to try but couldn't find enough files that were big enough.

Yes - what is worse, if you try (I set up to 33% of a 50GB NTFS drive)
and select and delete more than the 3GB worth, files just get totally
deleted without appearing in the Bin, or any comment made. Luckily I
was in a position of having some 2GB image backup files that I intended
to tidy up in any case

maltesebudgie

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Oct 29, 2004, 5:44:03 AM10/29/04

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Why I want it to hold more than 3.99 is not relevent. Why have a slider to
choose what percentage of the hard drive to use for the recycle bin if there
is limit of 3.99Gb? With drives getting larger and larger there may be valid
reasons for wanting the recycle bin to hold more than 3.99GB. I suspect
Microsoft have overlooked this and left the limit at 3.99. I would be
interested if anyone knows how to increase this limit.

"Ron Bogart" wrote:

> In news:2B7A7245-4D3C-4BE1...@microsoft.com,
> maltesebudgie <maltes...@discussions.microsoft.com> did some thinking
> and came up with these words:
> > Does anyone know how to increase the 3.99Gb limit on the Recycle Bin?
> > I have a 120Gb drive but if I cannot get the Recycle bin to hold more
> > than 3.99Gb.
>
> I can't make sense out of this? Are you wanting to use the Recycle Bin for
> a storage area?
>
> --

> Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬

David Candy

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Oct 29, 2004, 6:02:24 AM10/29/04

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It's unlikely to be changable. That's a magical programming value. The maximun number that can be held in a 32 bit word. If so it needs the code to be rewritten.

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