{"id":84,"date":"2007-03-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testblog.sapien.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/02\/purge-recycle-bin\/"},"modified":"2007-03-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:00:00","slug":"purge-recycle-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/02\/purge-recycle-bin\/","title":{"rendered":"Purge Recycle Bin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day<\/a> I showed how to find out how much space was being used by the recycle bin. To clear the folder you can use an expression that takes the result of Get-Child-item and pipes it to Remove-Item.  Here’s an example:<\/p>\n

Get-ChildItem e:\\temp\\testme -recurse | remove-item -recurse -whatif<\/font><\/p>\n

I’m using the -WhatIf parameter so verify what would happen. This is a good habit when performing destructive operations. You may need to use -force to overcome any restrictions like a read-only file. You still need permission to delete the file.  Using -force won’t change any permissions.<\/p>\n

Because the Recycle folder is hidden, you’ll want to use an expression like this:<\/p>\n

Get-ChildItem c:\\recycler -force -recurse | remove-item -recurse -force -whatif<\/font><\/p>\n

This will show what will be deleted. To carry out the dirty deed:<\/p>\n

Get-ChildItem c:\\recycler -force -recurse | remove-item -recurse -force<\/font><\/p>\n

You might see an error message about failing to find part of a path, but you should be able to ignore this message. I strongly encourage you to test all of this on a non-production system so that you thoroughly understand how these cmdlets and expressions work.<\/p>\n

del.icio.us tags: PowerShell<\/a>, Remove-Item<\/a>, Get-ChildItem<\/a>, RecyleBin<\/a>, Scripting<\/a><\/div>\n

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Technorati tags: PowerShell<\/a>, Remove-Item<\/a>, Get-ChildItem<\/a>, RecyleBin<\/a>, Scripting<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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