The Recycle Bin on F: is corrupted... For the third time in two days.

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I started getting this message yesterday and don't know what started it. But it comes back after much work.

I did not install anything yesterday and everything was working great for last month.

My system is:

WIn10 1903 18362.778, C:, D:, F: & E: is BR/DVD/CD

I do not have a purchased CD; mine is free Win7 upgrade.

I rebuilt my OS from scratch about one month ago because I had issues with drivers and remnants of long unused programs. This system is very clean. Office 365, three games (ESO, Assetto Corsa, Priject Cars2) and Discord. The last thing I did before this started was to download a pdf manual for my racing wheel from the fanatec (manufacturer) website.


I have done this three times in 24 hours.

To reset the Recycle Bin

Type cmd in Windows Start Search Box
Right Click on Cmd > Run As Administrator
rd /s /q E:\$Recycle.bin
Enter


After first time I have done:

chkdsk from command line and at reboot for all disks. A few (<5) errors on each disk fixed.

scanned with Defender all files on all disks. No threats found

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth

sfc /scannow

** ALL completed successfully


But I found the permission on all the files in both disks D: and F: were bonkers

owner was someone named: S-1-5-21-3358...-1001 (total of 46 chars)

Then from admin cmd I ran:

takeown /f F:\ /r /d y on F: and D:

and then had all top disk level permissions passed to all childs from properties / security

because the lower file/folders had NO permission assigned to the groups or users.

Does anyone have an idea of what is causing this?


Happy Trails and Good Health



I forgot I did: first every time

rd /s c:\$recycle.bin

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