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RECYCLER October 1992 Paul Bonner
PC/Computing Magazine Page 261
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Purpose: Recycler for Windows hides your unused files until
you decide to delete them.
Install: 1. Copy RECYCLER.EXE, DISKSTAT.DLL, RECFULL.ICO
and RECEMPTY.ICO to your Windows directory
(or anywhere else on your DOS path).
PC/Contact users:
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Alternatively, unpack RECYCL.EXE from your
download directory into your Windows
directory (or into a directory of its own).
2. Create a new Program Item in Program Manager
for RECYCLER.EXE.
3. Be sure you have Microsoft's Visual Basic
Runtime library VBRUN100.DLL. (VBRUN.EXE
can be found in the PC/Contact forum, Library
3, Utilities/Misc.)
Usage: When you launch Recycler in Windows, it appears as
an icon at the bottom of your screen. If you click
on the icon at this point, a window will open but
it will be empty.
Open up File Manager, press SHIFT and highlight a
few files, hold down your left mouse button, and
drag the files onto Recycler's icon.
Several things happen at once: The Recycler icon
changes to display an overflowing bin, and its
label changes to display the number of files that
you've dragged onto it and their total size in
kilobytes (Recycler maintains cumulative totals
for you). Most important, the files you've
dragged onto Recycler will disapper from the File
Manager and other file listings.
Recycler doesn't actually delete the files you've
dragged onti it. In fact, it doesn't move them. It
simply turns on the DOS hidden attribute for each
file which makes the files disappear from File
Manager's standard file listing.
If you've opted to activate Show Hidden/System
Files in Filfe Manager's View By File Type dialog
box, the files you've dragged into the recycling
bin wil appear in the File Manager listing with a
red exclamation point on the small icon that
precedes each filename.
In addition to removing the files from the
standard File Manager view, hiding the files makes
them invisible both to most common file operations
at the DOS command line, including the DOS Copy
and Delete commands, and to the satandard Windows
File Open dialog box. So if a directory holds 18
TXT files and you drag 16 of them into the
Recycler, a COPY *.TXT command at the DOS command
line will copy only the two unhidden files, and
the File Open dialog box in Notepad (or any other
application that works with TXT files) will list
only those two files.
When you open the Recycler window after you've
dragged files onto it, you'll find that it now
contains a list box with the name and path of each
file. The Restore button to the right of the list
will unhide any file that is currently selected
in the list box. When you unhide a file, it
disappears from Recycler and reappers in the
directory in which it originated. Alternately,
you can use the Restore All item on Recycler's
File menu to unhide all the files in the bin,
or use the Erase All menu item to permanently
delete all the files.
Notes: Recycler doesn't work with entire subdirectories
because the command it uses to hide files doesn't
work on directories. So if you drag a directory
onto Recycler, the program will refuse to accept
it and will generate an error message.
Recycler doesn't keep track of the files in the
recycling bin from one session to another. You
must determine whether you want to erase or
restore each file in the bin before you shut
down the Recycler application. If you try to
close Recycler (either by attempting to shut
down Windows or by selecting Recycler's File
Exit command or the Close command on the System
Menu) while there are files in the recycling bin,
the shutdown process will halt and a message box
will ask you to either restore or delete all the
files in the bin. When you press OK, the shutdown
operation comes to a hald and you're left where
you were in Recycler before you attempted to
shut down.