[Virtualacorn-list] File present in VA but absent in Windows

[Jeremy Nicoll - virtualacorn]

Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> [2] It was originally a .jpg file retyped to .txt which I had been
> experimenting with the better to understand EXIF tags. Maybe I somehow
> scrambled a byte sequence in there which meant something to Windows
> causing it to be classified as a system file?

Or maybe all files sent to the bin are given that attribute, to make them
less likely to be deleted by accident (though that didn't just happen to
some test text files I allowd to go into my just-turned-on Bin).

I don't a file gets flagged as a system file unless it's explicitly given
that attribute.  It's got nothing to do with content.   Eg on Windows lots
of .dat files are given that attribute, but if you create a .txt file then
rename it to .dat it doesn't automatically become a system file.

I would have expected the Bin to keep an index of the files that are in it,
so it knows where to restore them to if needed.  (But I see after some
experimentation that the RO Recycle Bin isn't that clever and expects users
to know where files would need to be restored to.  Not so useful...  Does it
only keep copies of file you manually delete or do files that apps delete
get put there too?)


> As I posted, all is now working as I expect and I no longer get the
> message that a file cannot be removed from the bin every time I start the
> VA.

Would you expect the Bin to be emptied on restarts?  The expiry choice seems
to be calibrated in days on my system, not a 'do on reboot' option.

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Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.