Recycle bin crashes explorer

unplanned bacon · Feb 20, 2015

I deleted 22GB worth of pictures by accident from the wrong folder and wanted to restore them, only I can't because the recycle bin crashes explorer every time it's opened.

I looked online and found this
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/131294-recycle-bin-corrupted-cannot-delete-file-folder.html

But I don't actually know where the recycle bin is located

:/ Seems anything and everything that can go wrong in 8.1 has done for me :'(

mike1996 · Feb 20, 2015

right click on it and hit go to file location
you may also have to unhide the folder

Open Control Panel
Open Folder Options.
Uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended

the file name in win7 is \$Recycle.Bin\%SID% i am not sure if that is the case on win8

Karsten75 · Feb 20, 2015

You have to be really careful. Once you have deleted files and wish to recover them, you run the risk tht further disk activity on that computer may overwrite those files.

This will tell you where it is and how to find it: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/43891-recycle-bin-empty-windows-8-a.html

However, you may also want to try and use something like Recuva from Piriform to see if you can recover your files that way.

Again - don't install things or do much (if anything) on the affected computer/hard drive until your files are recovered. Any activity runs the risk of overwriting deleted files.

unplanned bacon · Feb 20, 2015

Karsten75 :

They're gone from every other internet enabled device I own, because I used Cut to copy them from the Dropbox folder to my Hard Drive. If Windows could keep it together for more than 4 weeks, that would be great. I could recover my pictures then

Recuva finds nothing. They're in there though, because in the split second Recycle Bin is open you can see them

mike1996 · Feb 20, 2015

Karsten75 :

if there in the recycle bin and you just cant access them then don't worry about over writing them technically they have just been moved to a separate folder that will deleting them if your hard drive runs out of room this is also why the suggest recovery software wont find them

unplanned bacon · Feb 20, 2015

mike1996 :

Karsten75 :

if there in the recycle bin and you just cant access them then don't worry about over writing them technically they have just been moved to a separate folder that will deleting them if your hard drive runs out of room

I shut the thing down and I'm restoring through the Dropbox site

unplanned bacon · Feb 20, 2015

It took this happening to experience the beginning of the Last of Us properly. That opening bit hit me right in the feels, could actually feel my eyes welling up. Maybe it's because I know everything that follows (this is my second play through). First time through I had a more 'let's do this! Yeah!' mentality

unplanned bacon · Feb 20, 2015

mike1996 :

It hasn't got the go to file location option

unplanned bacon · Feb 20, 2015

Went into safe mode and it seems my computer is trying to divide by zero

It says Explorer.exe - Application Error
The exception Integer division by zero
(0xc0000094) occurred in the application at location 0x0d57aedf

Click on OK to terminate the program

EDIT: It's stopped trying to divide by zero now, don't know if emptying it fixed it or leaving it off for 7 hours fixed it

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