On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Ames Matthew B <[email protected]> wrote:
> So it appears that you can't delete a directory on a mounted disk into the
> recycle bin, but can you delete normal files into the recycle bin.

  The Recycle Bin is implemented by the Windows Explorer shell, not
the lower layers of the OS.  When you "delete" a file in Explorer,
what actually happens is the file gets moved to the \RECYCLER folder
in the root directory of the filesystem.  It wouldn't surprise me to
learn that Explorer is responsible for creating that directory
initially, and that Microsoft forgot to handle the case where a folder
gets mounted without ever having a drive letter.

-- Ben

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