[AccessD] OT: Where is my recycle bin

As a test, I moved tthe drive off of that server and put it on my laptop.  The drive still shows 
that it has 110 gigs on it but the recycle bins are now hidden so I cannot see them.  I modified my 
folder view to show them and sure enough there are the files and directories from my server sitting 
in the recycle bin of this goflex drive.  I emptied the recycle bin but we all know about that.

So why is the recycle bin on an external drive getting filled with the recycle bin stuff from my 
server.  What a security breach that is!

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 3/23/2012 8:57 AM, jwcolby wrote:
> I received another "database from hell" from a vendor on a usb external Freeagent Goflex drive. The
> data file was 24 gigs compressed, 250 gigs uncompressed, 90% compression ratio. I went out to look
> at the size of the drive and it is 1 tb but it shows that it has 111 gigs on it.
>
> Hmmm...
>
> My file is only 24 gigs, what is the rest.
>
> Poking around I discovered that there is a $Recycle.Bin with 80.1 gigs in it. I was mildly amused
> that they would send me a drive with so much stuff in the recycle bin so I went in to look at what
> it was and ... hmmm...
>
> *it is MY recycle stuff*
>
> There are four recycle bins inside of the recycle.bin folder.
>
> The first shows 40 gigs in the right click properties wizard.
> The second shows 8.07 gigs
> The third shows 31.0 gig
> The fourth shows 4 kbytes, although it shows actual files which would total many gigabytes.
>
> The question of course is, are these files actually on the goflex disk? It would appear so based on
> the fact that the disk has 80 gigs more than the data they sent me.
>
> And how did my recycle bin stuff get on this disk? I only hooked it up last night before I went to a
> meeting to start pulling that file off onto my server.
>
> What the heck is going on here?
>