Explorer shows incorrect drive space

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From: SlowJet (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:18:01 -0700

Norton Recycle Bin - Protested files.

There are two groups.
The others and yours.
When a file is deleted, norton takes the space and sets
it up to be undeleted as long as the space is not over
writen. After 7 days (default) it frees up the space.

If you are sure you dont need any of the deleted files,
right click on NRB and select empty norton protected
files, only delte yours. Let the othes age.

See you are protected and you are trying your best to
break the system :)

SJ
>-----Original Message-----
> shift-deleted over 10 big folders (all larger than 1gig
in size) together
>with all their contents (files) but didn't get the space
back in the C:
>drive. After I discovered this I tried reloading a
folder with the same
>files and found out that deleting all the files in the
folder and deleting
>the folder with its files didn't yield the same space
back in C:. deleting
>the files gives me all the space back but deleting the
folder with the files
>gives me nothing. So I still don't know how to get the
15 gigs space back
>from the previously shift-deleted folders and files.
What should I do to get
>the space back?
>.
>

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