Restoring to a different folder.

[Peter Jason]

Win7 SP1.

I want to delete certain files into the Recycle
Bin but then restore them into different folders,
can this be done at all?
Peter

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Win7 SP1.

I want to delete certain files into the Recycle
Bin but then restore them into different folders,
can this be done at all?
Peter

Why don't you just highlight all the files and drag them to a temporary
folder you create and then drag them to the folders you want them in? Or you
could drag them from the Recycle Bin to the new locations. Restoring will
just send them back to the original folders.

 

[Ken Blake]

Win7 SP1.

I want to delete certain files into the Recycle
Bin but then restore them into different folders,
can this be done at all?

Why do you want to do this? Why not simply move them to the folders
you want them in?

 

[Peter Jason]

Why don't you just highlight all the files and drag them to a temporary
folder you create and then drag them to the folders you want them in? Or you
could drag them from the Recycle Bin to the new locations. Restoring will
just send them back to the original folders.

Thanx. I figured it out.

 

[Peter Jason]

Why do you want to do this? Why not simply move them to the folders
you want them in?

I sort hundreds of images from the Internet and so
I use the Recycle Bin as a "concentration" store.
IE the likely candidates are merely deleted and
then the Recycled ones then moved to relevant
folders. It's easy to press the DEL key.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I sort hundreds of images from the Internet and so
I use the Recycle Bin as a "concentration" store.
IE the likely candidates are merely deleted and
then the Recycled ones then moved to relevant
folders. It's easy to press the DEL key.

You will have fun when the Recycle Bin fills up and deletes files you
think will still be there.

Your method strikes me as foolish...

 

[Ken Blake]

You will have fun when the Recycle Bin fills up and deletes files you
think will still be there.

Your method strikes me as foolish...

Ditto!

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Ditto!

In this thread, you've been much more polite than I was, so now I feel
guilty (but only a little) for getting you to say that

But maybe the OP will see the remarks in this thread (not only yours and
mine) as tough love.

 

[mick]

Why do you want to do this? Why not simply move them to the folders
you want them in?

I sort hundreds of images from the Internet and so
I use the Recycle Bin as a "concentration" store.
IE the likely candidates are merely deleted and
then the Recycled ones then moved to relevant
folders. It's easy to press the DEL key.[/QUOTE]

I assume you are downloading files to a folder somewhere and not
directly to the recycle bin. Then moving all those files once
downloaded to the recycle bin and sorting and deleting from there.
Crazy IMO :-? and I cannot see what you are gaining by it as they are
already in a folder waiting to be sorted to other folders. Have you
tried opening two explorer windows side by side to make moving the
files easier?

Another alternative is to bypass the recycle bin, so when you delete
files they are gone forever.
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57321138-285/seven-useful-windows-7-tips-and-tricks/

I have never bypassed the bin, and I have even been known to
permanently delete a file from it by mistake on very odd occasions.
Thank heavens for Recuva http://www.piriform.com/recuva or a previously
backed up image.

 

[Peter Jason]

In this thread, you've been much more polite than I was, so now I feel
guilty (but only a little) for getting you to say that

But maybe the OP will see the remarks in this thread (not only yours and
mine) as tough love.

*sniff* The OP knows the setting to give the
Recycle Bin a suitable capacity.

 

[Char Jackson]

I sort hundreds of images from the Internet and so
I use the Recycle Bin as a "concentration" store.
IE the likely candidates are merely deleted and
then the Recycled ones then moved to relevant
folders. It's easy to press the DEL key.

That's a ...novel approach, to put it mildly. You remind me of the guy last
year who wanted to copy a set of files from one folder to the same folder so
that the copied files would be grouped together at the bottom of the
Explorer window. (Didn't work, of course.) Some people are very creative
when it comes to computers, and that's not always a good thing.

 

[Mike Barnes]

That's a ...novel approach, to put it mildly. You remind me of the guy last
year who wanted to copy a set of files from one folder to the same folder so
that the copied files would be grouped together at the bottom of the
Explorer window.

He reminds me of the postman who thought that when we were out, the
wheelie bin would be a good place to put packages. [I don't know whether
that makes sense to non-UK audience.]

 

[choro]

That's a ...novel approach, to put it mildly. You remind me of the guy last
year who wanted to copy a set of files from one folder to the same folder so
that the copied files would be grouped together at the bottom of the
Explorer window.

He reminds me of the postman who thought that when we were out, the
wheelie bin would be a good place to put packages. [I don't know whether
that makes sense to non-UK audience.]

That's the rubbish bin, in'nit?. Not a bad decision as it would keep the
parcel dry and out of sight of would be pilferers. But, do tell me, DID
he push a note through the letterbox informing you of the situation or
didn't he? But since you found out where he had placed the parcel, he
obviously DID let you know!

 

[Daniel47]

That's a ...novel approach, to put it mildly. You remind me of the
guy last
year who wanted to copy a set of files from one folder to the same
folder so
that the copied files would be grouped together at the bottom of the
Explorer window.

He reminds me of the postman who thought that when we were out, the
wheelie bin would be a good place to put packages. [I don't know whether
that makes sense to non-UK audience.]

That's the rubbish bin, in'nit?. Not a bad decision as it would keep the
parcel dry and out of sight of would be pilferers. But, do tell me, DID
he push a note through the letterbox informing you of the situation or
didn't he? But since you found out where he had placed the parcel, he
obviously DID let you know!

The only time my wheelie bin is at the front of my house, where the
postie could see it, is when it's out at the roadside waiting to be
emptied. ..... So who comes first, the garbo or the postie??

Daniel

 

[Mike Barnes]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:24:14 -0700, Ken Blake


Win7 SP1.

I want to delete certain files into the Recycle
Bin but then restore them into different folders,
can this be done at all?



Why do you want to do this? Why not simply move them to the folders
you want them in?

I sort hundreds of images from the Internet and so
I use the Recycle Bin as a "concentration" store.
IE the likely candidates are merely deleted and
then the Recycled ones then moved to relevant
folders. It's easy to press the DEL key.

That's a ...novel approach, to put it mildly. You remind me of the guy last
year who wanted to copy a set of files from one folder to the same folder so
that the copied files would be grouped together at the bottom of the
Explorer window.

He reminds me of the postman who thought that when we were out, the
wheelie bin would be a good place to put packages. [I don't know whether
that makes sense to non-UK audience.]

That's the rubbish bin, in'nit?. Not a bad decision as it would keep
the parcel dry and out of sight of would be pilferers. But, do tell me,
DID he push a note through the letterbox informing you of the situation
or didn't he? But since you found out where he had placed the parcel,
he obviously DID let you know!

Yes, he did. Fortunately we got the note before the bin was emptied. We
might not have been so lucky, especially if we were away on holiday at
the time.

 

[Ken Blake]

In this thread, you've been much more polite than I was,

How polite I am largely depends on the person I'm replying to, what he
says, and how he says it.

so now I feel
guilty (but only a little) for getting you to say that

I'm sure it's only a little. <g>

 

[Ken Blake]

He reminds me of the postman who thought that when we were out, the
wheelie bin would be a good place to put packages. [I don't know whether
that makes sense to non-UK audience.]

You sent me to Google to look up "wheelie bin," and I thank you for
that. I didn't know the UK term, but I'm glad to have learned it.

 

[Andy Burns]

Yes, he did. Fortunately we got the note before the bin was emptied. We
might not have been so lucky

So he put it in a a bin full of rubbish? I thought perhaps he saw the
bin was already empty, so therefore the binmen had already been ...

 

[Mike Barnes]

So he put it in a a bin full of rubbish?

Yes, the rubbish in question being a fairly neat stack of paper and
cardboard.

I thought perhaps he saw the bin was already empty, so therefore the
binmen had already been ...

That would have helped, but not much, because there was no guarantee
we'd have seen his note before the bin was next emptied. Also it's an
awfully long way down to the bottom of a wheelie bin.

 

[nukid]

Why do you want to do this? Why not simply move them to the folders you
want them in?

There's only one occasion I can think of where I've ever used the recycle
bin for other than its intended purpose, and that was when I wanted to
delete all the files in some directory tree NOT matching some criterion
on Win98. I searched for the files matching the criterion, hit del, then
searched for * and drag-moved all the results to some temp folder. Then I
restored the recycle bin to put all of the first batch of files back
where they had been, went to the temp folder, selected all, and hit
delete. That way the matching files (the keepers) stayed in their
respective subdirectories.

Of course, since around Vista (or maybe XP?) onward we've had decent
boolean search in every explorer window. Nowadays I could solve that
problem by just negating the query.

If you ever use the recycle bin to temporarily move files while having
the computer auto-track which directories to return them to later, MAKE
SURE IT HAS ENOUGH SPACE. Can't stress that enough. With Windows 7 you
shouldn't need to though.