change the max size of xp's trash.

By mistake I deleted a set of files with a size of 70gb and had to use an undelete program to recover them. It was *really* annoying having to recover them only to find they had names like df74.mkv (to df179.mkv) and I had to manually change all the names to restart seeding.

This problem was caused by XP having a maximum size for the trash of 4gb. I want to change it to a decent size, say 100gb, to prevent this happening to me again: anyone know how to do it?



Note this guy seems to think it is like this, but mine has a hard limit of 3.99gb.
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102...sageID=2689064

Right click on the Recycle Bin icon and click on "Properties".
You can set the desired size there.

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Originally Posted by clocker

Right click on the Recycle Bin icon and click on "Properties".
You can set the desired size there.

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If you're referring to tweaking the slider that sets the "Maximum size of the Recycle Bin (percent of each drive)", that doesn't solve his dilemma.

I tried to do that on my pc and set the max size of the recycle bin to a generous amount and it still won't accept my 6 gb file (permanently trying to delete it instead)

I looked around and it seems that you can't get around that 3.99 GB limit or 10% of your hd's capacity. At least on an XP machine. This page explains it better:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2139504,00.asp

No hacks for this after about 8 years of XP is shocking. If it cannot be hacked, does anyone know of a replacement for the recycle bin instead?

Create a folder called TRASH, make a shortcut to it on your desktop and right-click drag-drop files to the shortcut instead of deleting them.
Do this for each partition.