FlashBin 1.0.2.1 - Recycle Bin for Removeable Media

SWEET! Somebody did something with it!

I is playing with it.

Cool! This would also be great if it could be integrated into Xenon!

This is great.

Wraithdu,
You have officially Won
^-^

Now I don't have to make this.

P.S. Why did you use AutoIt instead of NSIS? Is NSIS incapable of making these type of programs or is there another reason?

I always do Right Click -> Delete (what can I say, I'm mousebound), so this is a no-go for me. Not that I really need it: As I use my drive every day, for everything, I've just trained myself to double- and triple-check what I'm deleting. After having deleted an important file or two from my drive with no way to get it back, I've become very careful.

Of course, the downside to this retraining is that now the Recycle Bin itself causes me headaches. I'll recycle files without a second thought and then, when I see the papers in the bin, I empty it on impulse, usually without checking what's in it first--a very bad habit that entirely defeats its purpose. I'm actually /more/ cautious when I know that deletion is permanent.

Anyway, I completely went off on a tangent with this post. I'll stop now.

hi-5

I can't seem to get this to work, unfortunately, because it looked like a great little app. I'm running it from the C drive, I assume it can still work there?

One slight improvement to the packaging might be to put it in a separate folder (see Wikipedia's section on tarbombs for more information).

This would have real usefulness for me and many others if you could integrate an optional command to select certain files from the recycle bin and run them through Eraser Portable or another shredding program. Any possibility?

Ah, Alright!xD Thank You Very Much for making a "Recycle Bin Portable" program! *huggles*

Hnnn, I was looking for something like when a file from the removable drive is deleted (without manually running the Recycle Bin program), it will be detected then be moved to the Bin folder of the drive... something like that (can't elaborate details x~x;; sorry)... but I guess running first the program is inevitable for the "Recycle Bin, in a portable fashion" feature to work ^_^;;

Here's more features of the Recycle Bin that I'm thinking of:
>>Capability to undo delete (that actually kinda works like undo move, in the portable's case)
**Apparently, even though the file being deleted is not in the removable drive, Flash Bin doesn't include it in Windows' undo action.
>>Space Allocation (percent)
**Not necessarily a new partition for the bin, nor a preset occupied/allocated space in the drive. When the free space of the allocated bin space is not enough for the deleting file, the app deletes the "oldest-deleted file/s", if any. If the deleting file is too large for the allocated space... well... bypassing the bin would defeat the bin's purpose, so I hope the feature that I'll later mention is possible.
>>Deleted File Properties (Time/Date Deleted, Original Location)
**... o.o To me, that sounds like it needs its own explorer/file browser or something, to display those properties of the file... I'm also thinking, the app could have its own tab or a "Time/Date Deleted" and "Original Location" entries in the Properties dialogue box, that shows/applies only to files inside the bin directory.

And a feature I just thought of (not existing in Recycle Bin):
>>If a file is being copied/saved to the drive AND the drive is full, the app deletes "oldest-deleted file/s" in the bin big enough to give space to the file (if ever there are files in the bin).
**This is different from the Space Allocation feature I mentioned; this time, it deals with the free space and the size of all the deleted files. If ever this will be applied/possible, it will overwrite the Space Allocation feature then.

... If it's impractical to have such features, its alright not to include them ^_^ so as to not make the program complicated or what.

... Oh, and the icon! XD
I'm imagining something shaped like a thumb drive, with its body as its bin and its USB plug at the bottom... or, its USB plug serves as its bin. Both ideas, well, look like bloated thumb drives, kinda cylindrical-like but not exactly cylindrical, aheheh xD

Pardon the smilies ^_^;;

YYYYYYESSSS, a portable Recycle Bin is at my fingertips now! Thank You Very Much again!

Coool! This is excellent!!

I've been looking for something like this for ages! (the only thing I've found so far, was this http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3695, and it didn't work with me).

I have put the .exe and .ini files into the root directory of my USB stick and pointed the software to a Trashes root directory that I used to use for waste before I manually deleted it. (@ Bruce:) I also changed the hotkey to Ctrl-D (thanks for the tip!), so I can re-train myself to a new routine for deleting files, no matter which drive I'm working on.

Thanks for this useful software!!

i need to redirect it to the system recycle bin, how?

Any chance of getting a FlashBin Drop Target? Also did you ever decide to make a ClamWin Drop Target? Did I mention I kinda like EDT?

I'm gonna try this out now. I just saw this, I've been offline for a long time.

My testing led me to find that you haven't taken into consideration files with the same name. FlashBin does a no questions overwrite.
This led me to an idea that would not only solve the same name problem but also help with restoring deleted files. When FB moves a file to the bin, it could append _time/date to the file name. I was thinking you might be able to append the path it was moved from to, but that could lead to some very long filenames.
What do you think of the idea?

You know, you could actually make a single droptarget for EDT and FB. Left drag and drop would send to FB, right drag and drop would send to EDT...

A few things I'd like to see though...I'd like to see two new commands in the tray. The first is to empty the bin. The second is to open the bin. That way i don't have to hunt threw all those pesky folders :P.

Hey,
Congrats on the program, it is really great, but the only thing I don't understand yet is how to restore a file. I just got it 5 minutes ago, so maybe I will figure it out soon, but not as of yet. Help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you, I was concerned about using it before, but now that I know how to restore it, I feel much safer deleting my files. Thanks for the help.

Are you going to continue to develop this app or leave it as is?