{"id":1488,"date":"2011-04-21T17:17:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T21:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2014-06-06T07:10:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T11:10:03","slug":"how-to-create-a-recycle-bin-on-a-usb-flash-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-create-a-recycle-bin-on-a-usb-flash-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a Recycle Bin on a USB flash drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How to create a Recycle Bin on a USB flash drive<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">If you have USB flash drives, you&#8217;ll notice that there is no Recycle Bin on them. That&#8217;s because Windows only creates Recycle Bins on fixed drives (i.e. hard drives) and on some external hard drives &#8211; but never on USB flash drives.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">If you store pictures, email messages, documents, or music files on USB flash drives (and most of us do) you might like the added protection the Recycle Bin provides and that is giving you a second chance to get the files you&#8217;ve deleted back with a minimum of fuss.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to add the protection of the Recycle Bin to your USB flash drives, you&#8217;ll be happy to know that it&#8217;s easy to do. All you need is about 5 minutes and a program called iBin &#8211; and we&#8217;re betting Apple is not too happy about that name!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/ibin\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Download iBin from this page <\/a>(689kb) and unzip it to a USB flash drive that is plugged into a USB port on your computer. Once you&#8217;ve unzipped it to the USB drive, click the executable called &#8220;iBin.exe&#8221; and you&#8217;ll see the following dialog appear:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000;\"> <span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2010\/ibin1.png\" alt=\"InfoAve Premium\" width=\"484\" height=\"307\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click &#8220;OK&#8221; to continue with the setup. Once you&#8217;ve completed the installation, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autohotkey.net\/~FirstToyLab\/project_iBin_documentation.htm\"> be sure to read the program&#8217;s documentation<\/a>. The developer&#8217;s English is not very good, but it&#8217;s understandable. Thankfully, the program is better than the programmer&#8217;s English.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve installed iBin and you&#8217;ve read the program&#8217;s documentation, you&#8217;ll notice that there&#8217;s an iBin icon in your system tray. When you right-click on it, you&#8217;ll see various options available for working with iBin and the files on your USB flash drive (see image below):<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000;\"> <span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2010\/ibin2.png\" alt=\"InfoAve Premium\" width=\"241\" height=\"247\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Working in [M:\\] &#8221; refers to the drive letter assigned to the USB flash drive on my computer, yours will, most likely be different.<\/p>\n<p>Happy USB Flash Drive Recycling. Who said we&#8217;re not green?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to create a Recycle Bin on a USB flash drive If you have USB flash drives, you&#8217;ll notice that there is no Recycle Bin on them. That&#8217;s because Windows only creates Recycle Bins on fixed drives (i.e. hard drives) and on some external hard drives &#8211; but never on USB flash drives. If you store pictures, email\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-create-a-recycle-bin-on-a-usb-flash-drive\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[615,978],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7681,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/7681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}