Recycle Bin - Why Would A User Turn It Off?

I turned mine off for a while. I got tired of having to dump everything twice. And if you often delete whole directories at a time, like with some special project that’s finished, then the recycle bin is just as annoying as those popups that ask you if you “really” want to delete something everytime you really want to delete something.

If you think twice before deleting something, there’s your first and second chances.

I’d turn off the recycle bin if I wanted to make sure that what I had deleted was, in fact, deleted, and not preserved on tape. If my recycle buckets are backed up as part of a routine machine (or share) backup, then if I forget to empty the bucket then my deleted files will be written to tape, presumably that night and perhaps on other nights as well, depending upon backup strategies, and preserved for discovery.

If the files are not there, then they won’t be backed up. It’s a risk balance problem of the cost of a short term goof up (raised chance of irreversibly deleting an important file) vs. a long term blunder (lowered chance of finding incriminating information) with major lifestyle (financial, social, or political) impact.

Weak deletion is a flaw with most disk CDP (continuous data protection) technologies: One can’t really excise a file that one wants to obliterate.

But perhaps this is just ego talking. To quote the Bard: “What’s done is done and can’t be undone.”

i have always disabled mine, and is because the recylce bin is annoying when you delete tons of files like me it gets very big, and its annoying to have to delete things twice…

I disable it because I often delete large files from external hard drives on my laptop, while my C drive is already quite full. Having a delete operation halt because the drive is full is annoying, and even more annoying is forgetting to empty it and wondering why you’re low on disk space.

And yes, I know it supposedly keeps the files on that drive, but from what I’ve experienced that’s just not true.