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Why does the Recycle Bin have different file system names on FAT and NTFS?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

On FAT drives, the directory that stores files in the Recycle Bin is called , but on NTFS drives, its name is . Why the name change? The FAT and NTFS Recycle Bins have different internal structure because NTFS has this thing called "security" and FAT doesn't. All recycled files on FAT drives are dumped into a single directory, whereas recycled fi...

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