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Holaway
Steel Contributor
Feb 21, 2025

Where in the hades did MS put the Recycle Bin Folder?

When I click on File Explorer Recycle Bin never shows up on the left hand side tree setting. Why? Is it because it is an app now instead of a folder?
Well if they did that then I am royally screwed. I will have to go through and manually restore those files to their original file folder. Ugh, Ugh and double Ugh.
It was not broken so why did they fix it? Or am I doing something incorrect. I have spent a better part of an hour looking for that folder to show up on the left hand side column. I don't think it exist. I do try to find things on my own it is when I get frustrated as hades that I come to you all.

If I can recall correctly it was still listed on the tree system as a separate file folder in Windows 1

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  • Lucienw's avatar
    Lucienw
    Iron Contributor

    The physical path of the Recycle Bin is $Recycle.Bin, located in the root directory of each disk. Access permissions must be elevated to the SYSTEM account.