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Recycle Bin is a temporary storage for files that have been deleted on a hard disk drive by the user. When user delete a file or folder on hard disk drive by pressing Delete key on a keyboard or selecting delete option by right clicking the mouse on selected file or folder, then Windows locates the deleted item into Recycle Bin. On Windows system, this feature helps you to restore the deleted items to their original location whenever you want to get them back. However, you may lose the files from Recycle Bin due to accidentally emptied Recycle Bin or Recycle Bin size exceeds its maximum size limit. In such kinds of situations, nothing to worry you can recover files from Recycle Bin by making use of good third party file recovery software.

Microsoft introduced a trash system named as Recycle Bin with Windows 95 operating system. Recycle Bin is an area to store, brows, undelete the files and folders after deletion. On Windows Recycle Bin, the original location record of the file is stored, but the folder itself did not allow subdirectories. Suppose a folder is deleted, files contained in that folder are moved into the Recycle Bin and mixed up with other deleted files. You can restore the directory structure only if the batch of files is undeleted. Normally, a Recycle Bin is presented as a special file directory to the user depending on the implementation. This implementation allows the user to browse deleted files, restore those that were deleted by mistake, or delete them permanently. Suppose if you accidentally delete the files from Recycle Bin or empty the Recycle Bin then there may be chances to lose the important files. The most common scenarios in which the Recycle Bin files can be deleted or lost are listed below.

• Recycle Bin may become larger than the maximum size setting
• Accidentally emptying the Recycle Bin

Let us briefly explain how the Recycle Bin files may get delete or loss in above listed scenarios.

On Windows system, by default the maximum size of the Recycle Bin on hard drive is 10 percent of the total size of the hard drive. For example, a 500GB hard drive has a maximum Recycle Bin size of 50GB. Suppose if you delete maximum number of files and the Recycle Bin may become larger than the maximum size allocated in Recycle Bin Properties. This problem may occur due to the total size of the deleted files is greater than maximum Recycle Bin size. When Recycle Bin Exceeds the Maximum Size Setting, the oldest files will be deleted first to make space for newly deleted files. However, this situation could lead to loss of Recycle Bin files.

A file in the Recycle Bin still occupies disk space and the space is not regained until the Recycle Bin is emptied. Emptying the Recycle Bin will erases the files from hard drive. However, sometimes accidentally emptying the Recycle Bin may lead to loss of files.

You can recover files from Recycle Bin with the use of Remo Recover (Windows) – Basic Edition software. This software lets you to recover deleted or lost files due to emptying the Recycle Bin or Recycle Bin fills up from hard drive. You can download Demo version of this software to make a free trial.