Recycle Bin is really messed up...

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The help I got here restored the functionality of my Recycle Bin and I can
now see it, but there is a new problem..

I have four partitions on my first physical hard drive (drive 0). The
RECYCLER folder on the third drive (drive E:) has TWO recycle bins on it.
One of these recyccle bins has 0 bytes, as do the recycle bins in all of the
other RECYCLER folders on the other drives. The second one: has
1.7gigabytes and 17,000 files in it! Except when I open this recycle bin
there are no files in it. What is this thing and how can I get rid of it
(and restore the disk space?).

When I delete any files from any drive, they appear in BOTH of these bins
but there are still no other files in the second bin..

The folder with 1.7gb is "named,"
S-1-5-21-329068152-2052111302-839522115-500. The recycle bin that has zero
bytes in it, and the single recycle bins on all of the other drives, are
named, S-1-5-21-448539723-746137067-725345543-500.

I am using a program called MirrorFolder to backup all four partitions in
real time to a second physical hard drive in my machine. The Recycler folder
on the mirror of drive E:, which is drive K:, has only one recycle bin in
RECYCLER and it has the same number of files in it as the recycle bins on
all of the other drives (either 0 files, if the RECYCLER has been emptied,
or some number of files equal to the number of files have been deleted since
the last empty operatoin).

At one time a couple of weeks ago, I happened onto a folder view of the root
directorty of the E: drive that described the second recycle bin as being
"full," while the other one either said, "Empty," or had some value such as
<.1mb.

How can I get rid of this strange recycle bin on drive E: with 1.7gb in it.

John Wirt





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