I was using another account before. Let me call it account A. And I deleted a lot of files to the Recycle Bin at that time. But before I removed account A I forgot to empty the Recycle Bin.
My question is, are my files still there? I've searched and found that the Recycle Bin may live in $Recycle.Bin
, but I can't open files there so I can't know what they are. Any help how to open deleted files or how to delete them permanently?
Best Answer
Accordind to this site
You will need to know the SID of the account that was removed, or you can browse through the available folders to determine which one you need. Since this is a hidden folder you won't see anything in it by default.
To see the folders
You can also do this from the command line but the file names are encoded as explained in the linked article. When I tried this I noticed I could see more files than were visible in Explorer.
In my case I found two folders that contained files. One was my recycle bin. The other was from another user and contained files that I could not see in Explorer. I could however copy these files elsewhere, open them, etc.