by Wanderer » Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:03 pm
OK, i'll explain things so that you better understand how it works. Also, what i'm stating below is how RC4
should work and not how it
actually works. If it works differently then there may be a bug hiding in the shadows...
When RC fixes a rom, depending on what fix operation is selected to run, it extracts from the zip any files that are not part of any game or may be corrupted or may belong to another game. Those files are placed in the folder defined in File/Options/Backup folder. This is done so that if the operation was not intended or did not work as expected, roms or even whole zips are not lost. This folder should be regularly and manually cleaned up by the user. In there, there is also an option to use RecycleBin as the "backup" folder, so that the user could perform the cleanup much easier.
I'd suggest you play with this a little and if you discover that files are left there when they shouldn't, discuss it here or report it as a bug in the bug tracker.
Cheers.
P.S. As for this:
shinyknight wrote:Recycle bin from what I recall, has no physical space on the main disk; the files stay where they are, and space is freed only when the file is deleted (although you see them in the recycle bin, but that's just a symbolic link).
RecycleBin files
do consume physical space on the disc. When you delete a file, it does not release the space it consumes in the disc, it is merely moved from its current folder to C:\$Recycle.Bin (or whatever drive you're working on). When you delete it from the RecycleBin, it then releases the space it consumed (at least that's what is done in older OSs, Win7 for instance and i think Win8.x also, not dure if there are changes in Win10).
OK, i'll explain things so that you better understand how it works. Also, what i'm stating below is how RC4 [u]should[/u] work and not how it [u]actually[/u] works. If it works differently then there may be a bug hiding in the shadows...
When RC fixes a rom, depending on what fix operation is selected to run, it extracts from the zip any files that are not part of any game or may be corrupted or may belong to another game. Those files are placed in the folder defined in File/Options/Backup folder. This is done so that if the operation was not intended or did not work as expected, roms or even whole zips are not lost. This folder should be regularly and manually cleaned up by the user. In there, there is also an option to use RecycleBin as the "backup" folder, so that the user could perform the cleanup much easier.
I'd suggest you play with this a little and if you discover that files are left there when they shouldn't, discuss it here or report it as a bug in the bug tracker.
Cheers.
P.S. As for this:
[quote="shinyknight"]Recycle bin from what I recall, has no physical space on the main disk; the files stay where they are, and space is freed only when the file is deleted (although you see them in the recycle bin, but that's just a symbolic link).[/quote]
RecycleBin files [i]do[/i] consume physical space on the disc. When you delete a file, it does not release the space it consumes in the disc, it is merely moved from its current folder to C:\$Recycle.Bin (or whatever drive you're working on). When you delete it from the RecycleBin, it then releases the space it consumed (at least that's what is done in older OSs, Win7 for instance and i think Win8.x also, not dure if there are changes in Win10).