OpenEuphoria

Recycle Bin (was: "paper basket")

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <jluethje at gmx.de> Jun 10, 2002
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Hello Carl,

you wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:

>> I'd like to write some routines, that delete files/directories by using
>> the "paper basket".
>>
>> "paper basket" is the English translation of the German name, but is
>> this really the correct English name? How is this thing called under
>> Windows, and how under Linux?

> It sounds like you're talking about the 'Recycle Bin'.

Yup, that's it.   'Recycle Bin' isn't in my dictionary.

> As for the relavent API, I wouldn't know about that. :(

>> With the correct name, maybe I can find the proper Windows API-function.
>> Or can anyone please tell me, how to do it? Under windows, the "paper
>> basket" is a special directory. Maybe I just have to move the files to
>> this directory?

> I think there's something else Windows does other than moving a file to one
> of the hidden recycler folders on your machine. There's some kind of
> Registry change and/or an alteration to a hidden config file within the
> Recycle Bin folder(s).

> Note that for every hard disk partition on your machine, there's a hidden
> folder called 'Recycled' or 'Recycler', and files deleted from a particular
> partition go to that particular Recycler. Windows blurs the fact that the
> nearly-deleted files can be in different folders on the disk by listing them
> all together in the Recycle Bin.

> There's also an added complication that the Windows NT based OSs use a
> different method to Windows 9x for handling the deleted files and separate
> 'Recycler' folders.

>> Can a DOS program, that is running under Windows 95+, also use the
>> "paper basket"?

> If you make a console app for use with 'exw' you should have access to the
> internals of Windows at an API level, but if you're using plain old 'ex'
> you'll probably have to manually code all of the things a Windows API would
> do.

> ** Under Linux, it all depends heavily on what X Window Manager you use,
> and/or the File Manager you use within that. IIRC Gnome, KDE and OpenWindows
> all use different places to put their Recyclers.

Carl, thank you for this comprehensive explanation!

>> Math problems? Call 1-800-[(10x)(13i)^2]-[sin(xy)/2.362x].

> Any relation to 1-800-314-1592 ext. 6536? (They sell pie. Yum.)

Unfortunately no relation ...

> HTH,
> Carl

Best regards,
   Juergen