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Recycle Bin Corruption Issue

Good Afternoon,

I have a very perplexing issue. I have a new install of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials with 5 attached Win7 machines. I have set up redirected folders for their documents, enabled Access Anywhere so they could work from home if needed. The server and clients have been running great. The issue started last week with one client machine. After login, an error pops and says "The Recycle Bin on \\server\SharedFolder\Redirected Folders\%user%\"...is corrupt. Do you want to empty. The error is there for "My Downloads", "My Music", "My Searches", "My Favorites", "My Links". This week, all 5 clients now have the same errors. I have tried many of the solutions listed in this exchange and nothing is working. I am the admin. I am pulling what little hair I have left. Is this a virus or something else. Should I back up everything and reinstall the server?? Any help or fixes would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Lionel MM

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Thanks Michael. I was afraid I was going to hear that.

I will try Merete's solution and I will let you know. Thanks for your time.

Lionel MM

rd G:\$Recycle.Bin /s/q and rd C:\RECYCLER /s/q is all I use--there are not separate folders for each user--it is per physical drive

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Thanks everyone for all your help. These solutions solved the issue. I also had to change some of the permissions on the individual folders. The folders that were affected only had "Administrators" inside. I copied the permissions from the working folders and voila...fixed. Thanks again everyone. This exchange is great.

Merete

Well done and very good to hear.
Thank you glad it helped
have a great week end.
Regards Merete