Window 10 fails to delete the content of the recycle bin with the cmd

Window 10 fails to delete the content of the recycle bin with the cmd command and ends up with access is denied,

I tried the cmd code below to delete the content of the recycle bin but ends up with access is denied.
rd /s c:\$Recycle.Bin

what could be the issue here?

EdTittel said:

@jamal numan:
Have you tried lauching an administrative command prompt window to execute this command?
When I do it that way, the sequence works fine for me, to wit:




HTH,
--Ed--

PS: Personally, I prefer to right-click the Recycle Bin icon and then to select "Empty Recycle Bin" from the resulting pop-up menu. Unlike the preceding command that also deletes any folders (and their contents) that might be in the Recycle bin from other drives besides the C: drive, as well as binned elements from that drive itself. That's because each drive in Windows has its own Recycle Bin.

Many thanks for the help.
Is there one command that can delete the content of the recycle bin for all the drives in one go?



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jamal numan said:

Many thanks for the help.
Is there one command that can delete the content of the recycle bin for all the drives in one go?

I did them one by one and it works fine

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C:\WINDOWS\system32>rd /s c:\$Recycle.Bin
c:\$Recycle.Bin, Are you sure (Y/N)? y

C:\WINDOWS\system32>rd /s F:\$Recycle.Bin
F:\$Recycle.Bin, Are you sure (Y/N)? y
The directory is not empty.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>
C:\WINDOWS\system32>
C:\WINDOWS\system32>
C:\WINDOWS\system32>
C:\WINDOWS\system32>rd /s d:\$Recycle.Bin
d:\$Recycle.Bin, Are you sure (Y/N)? y

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

Batch script attached to my post will delete temporary files for all drives.

Ztruker said:

Right click on Recycle Bin and select Empty recycle Bin clears it on all drives.

Why is it necessary to do this from a Command Prompt?

this is very slow when using this tool.

Ztruker said:

You have very large drives I see. Is it a lot slower than using the Command Prompt?

Maybe empty more often?

It would be great if there is one command line by which the cycle bin gets empty. Is this command available?

Kari said:

Option Two in this tutorial is the most convenient way to empty Recycle Bin and delete all unnecessary files on all drives with one command: Open and Use Disk Cleanup in Windows 10

Kari

What I wanted here is one single command line that empty the recycle bin for all derives. The command below sounds not perform this in one go

C:\windows\system32>/c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535