using junctions and moving the Recycle Bin to the right partition
I have got two partitions on a PC running Windows XP:
C: system partition
D: data partition
Usually every user has got his user profile on
C:Documents and Settings<user>
But I have moved the user profiles to the D: partition and linked them to the old locations using the junction tool from sysinternals:
D:<user>
junction "D:<user>" "C:Documents and Settings<user>"
Everything works great, but the only annoying thing is the Recycle Bin:
When a user deletes a file (which physically is located somewhere in D:user), the file is moved to the Recycle Bin on the C: drive, which actually makes sense because Windows still thinks that it is somewhere in "C:Documents and Settingsuser". But this means that deleting files can take very long time.
So how can I tell Windows to use the Recycler on the D: partition instead?
I hope that you can understand the problem.
windows symbolic-link user-profiles recycle-bin junction
asked Sep 29 '10 at 16:50
DucDuc
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I have got two partitions on a PC running Windows XP:
C: system partition
D: data partition
Usually every user has got his user profile on
C:Documents and Settings<user>
But I have moved the user profiles to the D: partition and linked them to the old locations using the junction tool from sysinternals:
D:<user>
junction "D:<user>" "C:Documents and Settings<user>"
Everything works great, but the only annoying thing is the Recycle Bin:
When a user deletes a file (which physically is located somewhere in D:user), the file is moved to the Recycle Bin on the C: drive, which actually makes sense because Windows still thinks that it is somewhere in "C:Documents and Settingsuser". But this means that deleting files can take very long time.
So how can I tell Windows to use the Recycler on the D: partition instead?
I hope that you can understand the problem.
windows symbolic-link user-profiles recycle-bin junction
asked Sep 29 '10 at 16:50
DucDuc
211
add a comment |
I have got two partitions on a PC running Windows XP:
C: system partition
D: data partition
Usually every user has got his user profile on
C:Documents and Settings<user>
But I have moved the user profiles to the D: partition and linked them to the old locations using the junction tool from sysinternals:
D:<user>
junction "D:<user>" "C:Documents and Settings<user>"
Everything works great, but the only annoying thing is the Recycle Bin:
When a user deletes a file (which physically is located somewhere in D:user), the file is moved to the Recycle Bin on the C: drive, which actually makes sense because Windows still thinks that it is somewhere in "C:Documents and Settingsuser". But this means that deleting files can take very long time.
So how can I tell Windows to use the Recycler on the D: partition instead?
I hope that you can understand the problem.
windows symbolic-link user-profiles recycle-bin junction
asked Sep 29 '10 at 16:50
DucDuc
211
I have got two partitions on a PC running Windows XP:
C: system partition
D: data partition
Usually every user has got his user profile on
C:Documents and Settings<user>
But I have moved the user profiles to the D: partition and linked them to the old locations using the junction tool from sysinternals:
D:<user>
junction "D:<user>" "C:Documents and Settings<user>"
Everything works great, but the only annoying thing is the Recycle Bin:
When a user deletes a file (which physically is located somewhere in D:user), the file is moved to the Recycle Bin on the C: drive, which actually makes sense because Windows still thinks that it is somewhere in "C:Documents and Settingsuser". But this means that deleting files can take very long time.
So how can I tell Windows to use the Recycler on the D: partition instead?
I hope that you can understand the problem.
windows symbolic-link user-profiles recycle-bin junction
windows symbolic-link user-profiles recycle-bin junction
asked Sep 29 '10 at 16:50
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asked Sep 29 '10 at 16:50
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asked Sep 29 '10 at 16:50
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asked Sep 29 '10 at 16:50
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Moving the Recycle Bin is not possible.
Plus there are some unfavorable consequences to performance to moving the Recycling bin to another drive.
answered Jan 4 '12 at 20:26
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I had a similar problem (on Win10): SSD system drive, HDD data drive, junctions worked, deleting to the recycle bin was no problem, but restoring stuff from the recycle bin resulted in a copy operation when deletion was triggered from inside the symlinked path (e.g. C:Usersmejunction-to-dfoo).
This problem can be circumvented by going into the Disk Management Console, removing the drive letter (D:) and adding a mount point (e.g. C:data). Just adding a mount point is not enough, the partition is not allowed to have a drive letter at all.
Why this happens: The recycle bin view has a column Original Location and also knows where the file is really located (drive letter). If the drive letter and Original Location are different (e.g. because a file was deleted from inside a symlink/junction), the restore operation will perform a copy operation. If a partition is only accessed via a mount point on the system drive, there is no conflict and the usual quick restore is performed.
TL;DR: Completely abandoning D: for C:d-drive solves the problem and has the additional benefit of making Windows slightly more Unix-y by not having to switch drive letters in the console and such.
Edit: And that's why we can't have nice things... no file indexing support for anything without a drive letter. Indexing across a mount point in windows
answered Jan 1 at 7:04
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Moving the Recycle Bin is not possible.
Plus there are some unfavorable consequences to performance to moving the Recycling bin to another drive.
answered Jan 4 '12 at 20:26
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Moving the Recycle Bin is not possible.
Plus there are some unfavorable consequences to performance to moving the Recycling bin to another drive.
answered Jan 4 '12 at 20:26
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Moving the Recycle Bin is not possible.
Plus there are some unfavorable consequences to performance to moving the Recycling bin to another drive.
answered Jan 4 '12 at 20:26
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Moving the Recycle Bin is not possible.
Plus there are some unfavorable consequences to performance to moving the Recycling bin to another drive.
answered Jan 4 '12 at 20:26
surfasbsurfasb
20.7k34271
answered Jan 4 '12 at 20:26
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answered Jan 4 '12 at 20:26
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I had a similar problem (on Win10): SSD system drive, HDD data drive, junctions worked, deleting to the recycle bin was no problem, but restoring stuff from the recycle bin resulted in a copy operation when deletion was triggered from inside the symlinked path (e.g. C:Usersmejunction-to-dfoo).
This problem can be circumvented by going into the Disk Management Console, removing the drive letter (D:) and adding a mount point (e.g. C:data). Just adding a mount point is not enough, the partition is not allowed to have a drive letter at all.
Why this happens: The recycle bin view has a column Original Location and also knows where the file is really located (drive letter). If the drive letter and Original Location are different (e.g. because a file was deleted from inside a symlink/junction), the restore operation will perform a copy operation. If a partition is only accessed via a mount point on the system drive, there is no conflict and the usual quick restore is performed.
TL;DR: Completely abandoning D: for C:d-drive solves the problem and has the additional benefit of making Windows slightly more Unix-y by not having to switch drive letters in the console and such.
Edit: And that's why we can't have nice things... no file indexing support for anything without a drive letter. Indexing across a mount point in windows
answered Jan 1 at 7:04
T NierathT Nierath
34819
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I had a similar problem (on Win10): SSD system drive, HDD data drive, junctions worked, deleting to the recycle bin was no problem, but restoring stuff from the recycle bin resulted in a copy operation when deletion was triggered from inside the symlinked path (e.g. C:Usersmejunction-to-dfoo).
This problem can be circumvented by going into the Disk Management Console, removing the drive letter (D:) and adding a mount point (e.g. C:data). Just adding a mount point is not enough, the partition is not allowed to have a drive letter at all.
Why this happens: The recycle bin view has a column Original Location and also knows where the file is really located (drive letter). If the drive letter and Original Location are different (e.g. because a file was deleted from inside a symlink/junction), the restore operation will perform a copy operation. If a partition is only accessed via a mount point on the system drive, there is no conflict and the usual quick restore is performed.
TL;DR: Completely abandoning D: for C:d-drive solves the problem and has the additional benefit of making Windows slightly more Unix-y by not having to switch drive letters in the console and such.
Edit: And that's why we can't have nice things... no file indexing support for anything without a drive letter. Indexing across a mount point in windows
answered Jan 1 at 7:04
T NierathT Nierath
34819
add a comment |
I had a similar problem (on Win10): SSD system drive, HDD data drive, junctions worked, deleting to the recycle bin was no problem, but restoring stuff from the recycle bin resulted in a copy operation when deletion was triggered from inside the symlinked path (e.g. C:Usersmejunction-to-dfoo).
This problem can be circumvented by going into the Disk Management Console, removing the drive letter (D:) and adding a mount point (e.g. C:data). Just adding a mount point is not enough, the partition is not allowed to have a drive letter at all.
Why this happens: The recycle bin view has a column Original Location and also knows where the file is really located (drive letter). If the drive letter and Original Location are different (e.g. because a file was deleted from inside a symlink/junction), the restore operation will perform a copy operation. If a partition is only accessed via a mount point on the system drive, there is no conflict and the usual quick restore is performed.
TL;DR: Completely abandoning D: for C:d-drive solves the problem and has the additional benefit of making Windows slightly more Unix-y by not having to switch drive letters in the console and such.
Edit: And that's why we can't have nice things... no file indexing support for anything without a drive letter. Indexing across a mount point in windows
answered Jan 1 at 7:04
T NierathT Nierath
34819
I had a similar problem (on Win10): SSD system drive, HDD data drive, junctions worked, deleting to the recycle bin was no problem, but restoring stuff from the recycle bin resulted in a copy operation when deletion was triggered from inside the symlinked path (e.g. C:Usersmejunction-to-dfoo).
This problem can be circumvented by going into the Disk Management Console, removing the drive letter (D:) and adding a mount point (e.g. C:data). Just adding a mount point is not enough, the partition is not allowed to have a drive letter at all.
Why this happens: The recycle bin view has a column Original Location and also knows where the file is really located (drive letter). If the drive letter and Original Location are different (e.g. because a file was deleted from inside a symlink/junction), the restore operation will perform a copy operation. If a partition is only accessed via a mount point on the system drive, there is no conflict and the usual quick restore is performed.
TL;DR: Completely abandoning D: for C:d-drive solves the problem and has the additional benefit of making Windows slightly more Unix-y by not having to switch drive letters in the console and such.
Edit: And that's why we can't have nice things... no file indexing support for anything without a drive letter. Indexing across a mount point in windows
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