You used Shift + Delete to delete files. By pressing Shift + Delete, the files will be deleted without going to recycle bin first. With default Windows tools, this action is effectively permanent removal of files. The storage space these files took will be marked as "available, free to fill in". It is suggested that you use Shift + Delete with caution and certainty. Otherwise, use Ctrl + D or right-click-delete in case you delete something useful by mistake.
Check the Recycle Bin Properties. Right-click on the desktop Recycle Bin icon and select Properties. See if you have the checked the option "Don't move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted." This option is by default off. If you accidentally check this option, files will not go to recycle bin when deleted.
The deleted file is too big for Recycle Bin. It turns out that recycle bin is not a bottomless pit after all. Normally when the Recycle Bin is full, the oldest files in the recycle bin will be removed to make space for the newly deleted files. But when a file is too large to fit in the recycle bin in the first place, you will receive a warning "file too big for recycling bin do you want to permanently delete". If you hit yes, the file will be deleted right away without making a tour to the recycle bin.
You can customize the maximum size for the recycle bin by right clicking the desktop Recycle Bin icon and select Properties. In Windows operating systems with NTFS filesystem, each volume has a $Recycle.Bin folder under it, which normally is set to Hidden. The capacity of Recycle Bin is the total size of each $Recycle.Bin combined. The calculation might vary in different versions of Windows but starting with Windows Vista, the algorithm for default $Recycle.Bin size is ten percent of the first 40GB of volume size/quota, and five percent of any remaining volume/quota above 40GB.
You delete the files from removable devices. Windows Recycle Bin is a virtual folder that stores the information of files deleted in Window Explorer by users. It records the information such as name, deletion date and the original location of every deleted file.Recycle bin is not an actual folder so it does not have an absolute path. The actual location of recycle bin depends on the operating system and file system. For Windows Vista and above with NTFS, each drive has a $Recycle.Bin folder under it, which normally is set to Hidden. Deleted files’ information is stored in these $Recycle.Bin folders. Desktop Recycle bin collects information from these separate $Recycle.Bin folders and presents them to users so users can view, restore or "permanent delete" these files.
Drives that are considered "removable" - like your USB Pen Drive, SD cards - do not have recycle bins at all. Different operating systems also treat the concept of "removable" slightly differently. For example, your external hard drives are removable in nature but are considered as local drives and have their own recycle bins created by the system. In short, if the system sees the external device as "removable storage medium", it will not assign a recycle folder to it and files deleted from this storage medium will not route to desktop Recycle Bin.
How to Recover Permanently Deleted Files?
Above are some of the common reasons why deleted files don't stop by the Recycle Bin. If you cannot find your files in Recycle Bin, don't worry. You can use 3rd party data recovery software to help you retrieve your lost files. We would recommend H Data Recovery in this particular case. H Data Recovery has 6 unique data recovery modules, each is designed to handle a different data loss situation. You can choose the Accidental Deletion Recovery module to get your lost files back. You can also recover any files that have been cleared out from the recycle bin with the recover From Recycle Bin module.
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