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Google Drive has told me I have 200,000 files in my trash/bin, taking up 19GB. I've repeatedly tried clicking the "Empty Bin" option in browser, but that doesn't seem to do anything.
I called Google Drive Support, and the guy said that when you click Empty Bin, it only gets rid of what your browser has loaded... He recommended scrolling and then clicking empty bin occasionally. What kind of a suggestion is that? I said I have 200,000 files in my bin, which he already knew, and apologised, saying it was the only way.
I'm experiencing the very same thing right now:
I accidentally synced a huge folder containing > 300GB worth of stuff,
so I quickly reached the 15GB limit without realising the issue
I moved this folder to the bin, clicked empty bin, but it struggles to
load, and when it does it loads and displays more folders, suggesting
that emptying bin contents only deletes what is displayed in the bin
However...
I believe it is deleting the bin contents, just very slowly
The 'Storage' level at the bottom of the left panel goes down by 0.1GB every few minutes. I believe it's iterating through every bin item and removing it permanently, hence why it's taking so long.
Hope that info helps someone else too!
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I've been trying to delete this extremely stubborn folder and nothing seems to work. First I tried the disk cleanup tool in the windows control panel, then CCleaner, and finally followed by a barrage of cmd tricks. I think one of the sub-files located under System32 is corrupt, because when I go to delete it normally I get the "The system could not find the specified item..." error. I even tried taking ownership of all files and folders within Windows.old, but was STILL denied access! Please help!
It's pretty simple to remove:
Click in Windows' search field, type Cleanup, then click Disk Cleanup.
Click the "Clean up system files" button.
Wait a bit while Windows scans for files, then scroll down the list until you see "Previous Windows installation(s)."
Select Previous Windows installation and anything else you want to remove and select OK.
If you've made all these attempts to remove it already though, you may have broken Windows ability to remove the folder.
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I have a problem that sprang up out of nowhere in the past two or three days. Whenever I'm using Git in Terminal (which is pretty much always), if I visit GitHub in my browser or even visit a page that links to GitHub, an OSX dialogue pops up that reads
Github Conduit wants to use your confidential information stored in "privateKey" in your
keychain.
Do you want to allow access to this item?
[ ? ][ Always allow ][ Deny ][ Allow ]
To begin with, I don't know what it's accessing -- my SSH key, I assume? I also don't know why it would try to access this information when I'm not directly interacting with Git. Worst of all, the dialogue's information button is disabled, and clicking on any of the options produces another dialogue box, then another, then another. After popping up some 3-10 times (it's usually on the higher end of that range) they disappear until I click another link.
What in the world is going on here? Googling has produced very little information (though it does force the dialogue to pop up over and over again) and I'm becoming a little paranoid.
Edit
Some additional information: I opened Activity Monitor to check out what was going on. Its parent process in launchd; when I tab to "Open Files and Ports," it lists ~30 items, beginning with
/Users/me/Library/Containers/com.github.GitHub.Conduit/Data
And including
/System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain
/Users/chaseries/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
And other keychain-ey directories (and a whole bunch of other strings of text I don't understand, including references to ReactiveCocoa and RockemSockem).
"Data" is a directory which includes an unexpected assortment of things, like a copy of my downloads folder, Photo Booth images, movies, etc. I have no idea why this file is here. I'm not well versed in this kind of stuff, to be honest, but that 'Data' dir sounded pretty strange to me, thus the edit. Any thoughts?
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I just needed a old file i deleted a few days back and I googled and got pandora recovery tool.
I was wondering how I can recover an item after deleting it from recycle bin.
After i delete a file how can it be restored ?
A delete operation only doesn't remove the files from hard disk but those files are still there until some other file replaces/overwrites the previous file.
A common misconception is that the data is actually removed from the hard drive (erased) when you delete a file. Any time that a file is deleted on a hard drive, it is not erased. Instead, the tiny bit of information that points to the location of the file on the hard drive is erased. This pointer, along with other pointers for every folder and file on the hard drive, is saved in a section near the beginning of the hard drive and is used by the operating system to compile the directory tree structure. By erasing the pointer file, the actual file becomes invisible to the operating system. Eventually, the hard drive will write new data over the area where the old file is located.
There are so many open source software to undelete a file from
MiniTool Power Data Recovery (Free Edition)- http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/download.html
You can recover upto 1 GB
Recuva - http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download
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I have deleted user by "Delete user folder (safe)" mode in Mac OS X V 10.7.5. Please, don't ask me why, but now I need it.
I am googling it, but nothing usefull. I found some folders with name like "6 17-11-10-062.0", "6 17-11-10-062.0", "6 17-31-31-784.0" and "6.0" in my trash. What is it?
How can I recover user data? What program can help me? Sorry for my English. Thaks :)
If you used the "Delete the home folder" with "Erase home folder securely" option, there's no way to recover it. If you had not chosen the "Erase ... securely" option (and not done much else with the computer after deleting the account), you might've been able to use data recovery software to find & recover at least some of the files. But what the "... securely" option does is to overwrite the deleted files to make sure they're really really gone and unrecoverable. That's what they mean by secure deletion.
There's a slight possibility that you might be able to use data recovery software to find traces of files that were deleted normally (insecurely) from the account before the account itself was deleted. But I wouldn't expect to find much, and what you would find would be (by definition) old versions and other things you considered unimportant.
If you are interested in trying to do data recovery, stop using the computer immediately. Shut it down and use some other computer to research your options (this superuser question is a good place to start). The more you use the computer, the more of the old files will be unrecoverable because the space they were stored in is continuously getting reused for new files, and once it's reused, whatever was there before is gone.
I don't know what the folders you found in your trash are, but I'm pretty sure they're nothing to do with the deleted account. Sorry, but unless you have a backup, I think you're not going to be able to get much of anything.
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I have recently got the Samsung series 7 ultra laptop and found a lot of bulkware with the pre-installed windows 8 so I did a fresh install of Windows 8. It went through successfully but I noticed my folder like Documents, Music, Pictures etc. now have "Configuration settings (.ini)" type files named: "desktop".
(desktop file from Document folder).
When open with notepad, I get something like:
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=#%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21770
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-112
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-235
What are these for and is it safe to delete?
This .ini file stores customizations that you've set for that particular folder, such as icon size, layout, etc.
If you haven't set any customizations these should just be the default settings. You can delete them if you want, but they'll probably just come back. They also should only show up if you have the 'show hidden files and folders' option selected under 'folder options.' That's because Microsoft doesn't think you need to worry about it, which in terms of this particular file is probably true. The files sizes are negligible and deleting them will only reset any customizations you may have set.
Hope this helps!