Macrium Reflect restores Recycle.Bin  

Bree said:

Testing with a mounted Macrium image (with the box ticked for 'enable access to restricted folders'), in File Explorer it shows multiple recycle bins on the mounted drive , but every one of them will open to your C: drive's recycle bin, not to the mounted drive (F: in this example). You cannot use File Explorer to look in the ones on the image. You need to use another file manager, or use DIR /A:H in a command prompt (or DIR /A:H /S if you want to see the contents of all the sub-folders).

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Yes, I was aware of that. I have C: and D: and I keep the "Hide system files" unchecked because I was losing hard drive space and found out that hibernate had gotten activated and now I keep an eye on it - and yes I ran powercfg.exe -h off.

Bree said:

My point was that File Explorer won't let you see the true contents of $Recycle.bin on any mounted images. It 'helpfully' redirects you to your own Recycle Bin on the C: drive. You must use something else, such as the command prompt, if you want to see what's really in any of the recycle bins on a mounted image.

Here is what I got:

Perhaps it is a "feature"

SIW2 said:

Perhaps it is a "feature"

Yea, I probably should have not posted this because I don't think it is a real issue, and like so many things, it could have been a fluke and never happen again.

It is fine to post it. Not sure how it could be a fluke.

SIW2 said:

It is fine to post it. Not sure how it could be a fluke.

Don't know, but maybe Macrium failed to write the Recycle.bin from the image for some reason; it wouldn't be the first software glitch.

Bree said:

Was the image you restored an image of the same partition you deleted the file from?

When you look at the 'Recycle Bin' in File Explorer, you are actually seeing a composite view, made up from all your $recycle.bin folders across all your drives. When you restore a Macrium image to a partition it only changes that one partition's $recycle.bin, so only the files you deleted on that partition would be changed.

The image was an image of the partition that I restored.