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'Recycle Bin' cleaning?
About 8 months back I asked questions about how the ReadyNAS 'Recycle Bin' works. I never received a really good answer. But, since then I have visually, via RAIDar, seen that the ReadyNAS actually do...
NASNoob wrote: Should I set the Bin for '2 days', I read this to be today+2days. So, when I come back in 4+ actual days, I expect the 'old' files to be gone. NO. The trash was still present. (?) ODD?
Yes, that is odd. As far as I know, the Recycle Bin is cleared by a cron job that runs once per day. If you set "2 days" (and your NAS is always on), files moved to the Recycle Bin today should be permanently deleted from it two days (or maybe two days +/- 23 hours, 59 minutes) in the future.
NASNoob wrote: Or, are you saying that the logic is asking me to enter a 'date' like M/D/Y?
No, it just wants a number.
NASNoob wrote: I have found that a value of zero (0) [for the size limit] seems not to ever work! But, I will try some other 'little values.'
If you want to completely remove the Recycle Bin from a share, simply uncheck the "Enable Recycle Bin" checkbox and click Apply. Then manually delete the Recycle Bin directory; it will not reappear (and your deleted files will of course not be saved in it) unless you re-enable the Recycle Bin in the future.
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