[AccessD] OT: Where is my recycle bin

This thing has software and drivers that come with it.  Because it showed up as a drive (just 
automatically found and mounted) I just dragged and dropped the file I needed off onto the server. 
I did not install their software and I was not asked to install anything.

It sure makes me uneasy sending the drive back to them.  I did "empty the recycle bin" but we all 
know that doesn't really delete anything.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

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

On 3/23/2012 9:24 AM, Martin Reid wrote:
> John
>
> Check if the strive has any automatic backup software running when you connect it
>
> Martin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Where is my recycle bin
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> 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?
>>
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