XY's "raw" view of Recycle Bin can be quite useful
Posted: 21 Sep 2006 05:23
Had not empied my Recycle Bin for a while so had LOTS of files and folders in it...wasn't sure if all in there was really junk...but as we know, Win Expl won't show you much of what's there, except for name and deleted date and such...
Now for a folder that contains files, I was able via XY to browse those folders and see the contents...in Win Expl, I would have had to restore the folder to see into it....
So XY allowed me to skip a lot of restore/deletes.
Also, with XY, I was able to browse (via preview) some of the JPG's and such and determine they were truly ok to purge...yes, the names were not at all same as original, but by size and date and type, I could match them up with listing from Win Expl just enough to validate them...
When XY shows the R-Bin, the names are generally listed in Dc999.ext style where 999 seems to be some sequential number...There also is a file called INFO2 which contains the "original" names and lots of other unknown stuff...doing a preview on INFO2 with "Extract text", one can see the list of names...which match up to the Dc999 files in numeric order, it seems...
Anyway, when I first saw how XY showed the R-Bin, I thought: What good is this? But now, I know that, when used in conjuction with Win Expl, one can review and locate, for example, the correct JPG to restore, when one doesn't recall the correct name or deleted date!
Now for a folder that contains files, I was able via XY to browse those folders and see the contents...in Win Expl, I would have had to restore the folder to see into it....
So XY allowed me to skip a lot of restore/deletes.Also, with XY, I was able to browse (via preview) some of the JPG's and such and determine they were truly ok to purge...yes, the names were not at all same as original, but by size and date and type, I could match them up with listing from Win Expl just enough to validate them...
When XY shows the R-Bin, the names are generally listed in Dc999.ext style where 999 seems to be some sequential number...There also is a file called INFO2 which contains the "original" names and lots of other unknown stuff...doing a preview on INFO2 with "Extract text", one can see the list of names...which match up to the Dc999 files in numeric order, it seems...
Anyway, when I first saw how XY showed the R-Bin, I thought: What good is this? But now, I know that, when used in conjuction with Win Expl, one can review and locate, for example, the correct JPG to restore, when one doesn't recall the correct name or deleted date!