Recycle bin structure

Posts: 3 · foxdon 11 Oct 2012, 18:38

Hallo,
I use FreeFileSync and it is realy great!!
But I have problem with folders in recycle bin "FFS *date* *time*" and I don´t
know, what is in this folders. I need to see, which files were deleted
sometimes.
Is any possibility how to browse (or just see) the contain of folder in
recycle bin? Only way I have found is to restore the folders, but it is very
very uncomfortable.
Thanks for your help

Posts: 7052 · Zenju 14 Oct 2012, 14:49

I don't think there is a way to traverse folders in recycle bin. But it's
certainly something Microsoft should have implemented already for ages.

Posts: 3 · foxdon 19 Oct 2012, 11:48

And is it good idea to make it like this? Why was not good the old philosophy?
Till ver. 3.x FFS deletes "normally" - like common file manager.
Or is any possibilities how change setting of the FFS?
Thanks a lot

Posts: 7052 · Zenju 23 Oct 2012, 16:34

Not sure if it is "good" but it's certainly *fast*, like 10 or even 20x! Calling the recycle bin API repeatedly is almost prohibitively expensive. Yet there may be a more user-friendly *and* (almost as fast) solution. I'm working on it...

Posts: 71 · Giangi 24 Oct 2012, 08:48

I've asked the same a long time ago, me too I prefere to see every single deletions instead of only the "father folder"!

Posts: 7 · ucaakashi 25 Oct 2012, 00:14

Since there have been a few responses against using "FFS date time", I wanted to add that I DO like this feature. The reason why I have found it helpful is that when I am troubleshooting with someone, I can very easily identify all of the files/folders that were removed during a FFS job.

Also, some people have very messy Recycle Bins, and so it is easier to locate this identifiable folder prefixed with "FFS".

I realize that I may be the minority, I just wanted to mention that this feature is helpful for some, and so if it is decided to no longer create the parent "FFS date time" folder by default, that a preference still be made available to allow for this.

Thanks.

Posts: 7052 · Zenju 25 Oct 2012, 17:53

Okay, I found a way to avoid the inconvenience of the "FFS <timestamp>" folders in recycle bin without giving up on performance, or giving up on transactional behavior (=no risk of FFS leaving the directory structure in a bad state in case of fatal external conditions), keeping the GUI responsive and allowing cancellation at any time. FFS will now move all files located *within* the "FFS <timestamp>" folder to the recycle in a batch task, which is almost as fast as the old solution. Some numbers: moving 1000 files to recycler individually in my test case takes 33 seconds; the old FFS solution of moving the temp folder to recycler is < 1 second. The new solution moving the content of the temp folder as a batch task takes 2 seconds. A pretty good trade-off I would say.
@ucaakashi: Your scenario is still possible for most part, since the "source" directory shown in recycle bin now contains the "FFS <timestamp>" directory, so is at least visible.

Here is the new beta to test the new behavior:
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Posts: 3 · foxdon 28 Oct 2012, 14:40

Great! I think it works fine. The true is that I don't care spent time for sync too much.
Your program is absolutely the best (possibilities, logging is fantastic, batch...just everything)!
Thank You very much.