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i was running out of space on my desktop's harddrive, so i started looking for to delete. i come across a folder in the C directory called recycler. inside it was this folder called "nprotect", and inside that was alotttttttttttttttttttt of files. these files were made up of old videos, downloaded .isos and other i deleted (using the shift delete method)... so i dont know why they are here... i deleted the isos and vids, but there is still alot of .rbf .ed8 .csf .msi and other random extensions left that i am not familiar with... is it safe to delete these. i checked on my laptop, and these arnt there in the "C:\RECYCLER" folder...

thanks inadvance :thumbsup:

 
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The C:\Recycler folder is created/Used by Norton Utilities as an alternative to the regular recycle bin.
any files in this folder are files that have been previously deleted, and are therefore safe to delete from the C:\recycler folder.

When Windows Deletes a File/Folder is does not actually remove anything from the hard drive, it simply adds a character to the beginning of the file name which makes it unreadable to Windows Explorer/DOS, but the file is still there. Windows does this in case the file needs to be restored. Windows will rename the file and then change it's record of the hard drive to report that those sectors are available to be over written.

until those sectors are over written, the data can be recovered.