What is the proper way to clear the recycle bin for all users in Windows Server R2? As far as I can tell, these is no "official" Microsoft supported way of doing this. There are two options. Bin and the other is scripting cleanmgr. Bin and Windows should re-create the necessary folders the next time that they are needed. I just tested this quickly and it appears to work, but -obviously- proceed with caution. You can do this with the Disk Cleanup tool cleanmgr. Unfortunately, Microsoft decided to bundle this with the "Desktop Experience" set of features, meaning you'll have to install a bunch of other crap and reboot.
The alternative is to grab the following two files and move them to the specified locations per Technet :. It's not the cleanest thing, but it will work. The linked article is for XP, but the syntax is unchanged as of Server R2. I don't think there is a proper way documented as the recycle bins for users are kept separate in their profiles; this would also be a security hazard to allow because documents or items in the recycle bin, if perused by users, could allow certain documents to be leaked.
It might be possible to script an administrator-privileged script to run and clear files from the trash of each local profile but that might still be synced to the server holding your profiles if you have roaming profiles.
But you need to have permissions and ownership properly set; I know on our servers Administrator does not have proper access to profiles on the storage server; administrator has to take ownership of the profile, and when we're done return ownership to the proper user or else profiles don't work properly for them anymore.
You could try running a process at logoff that clears the trash directory per user, but that also entails accidentally deleting something that they want to recover later and will now be gone since it was deleted at last logoff.
Probably the "proper" way to do it is to configure quotas on workstations and servers and when that quota is hit for storage, the user learns they have to delete items from the recycle bin.
Because of security it would be a training issue. Otherwise you'd need a workaround. The only other problem I'd worry about in using it is that it might have to be run on a workstation and on the server or you might have profile syncing issues with what appears where. It looks like it's supposed to be just a mini-tool for accessing the "disk cleanup" tab in Windows. Another thought I would classify this as a monumentally Bad Idea tm , however. Then you'd delete their files from that shared directory.
Linking this over the network, security setup, etc. I ran TreeSize Free and saw I had 15gigs in the Recycle Bin, but I couldn't see it, probably because it was done by a long departed user. It will remove the recycle. Might no be the most elegant code and there may well be a better way to do it but it will help free up space on a congested server.
You can test it using the -WhatIf switch on the Remove-Item command. NB: Each drive maintains its own recycle bin; so you'd want to replace the drive letter with whichever drive you're running this command for, or you can use the following for all local drives:.
I had a recycle bin that was showing over 4GB of data but I was unable to clear it. Went in and found a bunch of profiles that were no longer used on the server and removed them under system properties - Advanced - User Profiles and now the recycle bin is empty.
Select the advanced tab. Click the settings button under the user profiles section. Select user and click delete. We had a big issue with. We now restart each TS once a week and clear down profiles and it is no longer an issue. You're right If you're deleting this profile due to corruption or some sort then most of the time the. Nothing wrong with using the registry as long as you're careful.
I used GUI before I tried this solution. While it appeared that I was deleting the profile in question manually, I really wasn't. The registry is what told me exactly which folder the account was mapped to.
In my case it was a temp folder that kept getting in the way of the user logging into the server after I thought I had removed the profile through the GUI. Home Windows Windows Server How-tos. Windows Server. Jackie Moon. Last Updated: Mar 26, 1 Minute Read. Reply About a year ago, I went through the user profiles on our RDS server and deleted a whole bunch of user profiles from inactive accounts users that no longer work here.
Since then I have made it part of the routine when inactivating the user accounts of terminated employees to remove their profile on the RDS server to keep it cleaned up. Recently, I have been having problems doing that. Until very recently, I could remove these profiles after a reboot of the server which we do routinely once a week , but now that is not even working.
When I try to delete these files individually, I get the following error: " The action can't be completed because the file is open in System. I don't understand why all of a sudden I am having this problem when as far as I know, nothing has changed on that server. Why would the system have these files open on an inactive user account? Is there anything I can do to force these files to be closed by the system so I can remove these profiles? Thanks for the quick reply. Just to clarify, I am not having trouble deleting these inactive accounts from Active Directory.
The problem I am having is in removing their profiles from the RDS server. For some reason recently the accounts seem to always be in use by the "System" I assume the OS and this never used to happen before. I have no trouble with removing the accounts from Active Directory, but I like to clean up the user profiles on the server, otherwise it leaves orphaned profiles on the server that I feel can impact the performance of the server over time.
I have no idea why files in an inactive profile would still be in use by the system, even after a reboot, when no one is logged on to that profile nor can they because their AD account has been inactivated. As far as any associated Event IDs for this error, at first I didn't think there were any. However, I just tried to delete the ntuser. The following events were generated in the Application log:.
Can you check if any of the Antivirus or User profile management software is not holding the user profile files? I would suggest to disable any of these services that interfere during the deletion process, also check if user sessions are not in disconnected mode on the server you are deleting. I have already tried disabling antivirus. We don't use Appsense or Citrix or any other third-party profile management software, for that matter.
I have also already confirmed that the user sessions are not in Disconnected mode. All great suggestions, however. The event log seems to indicate it may have something to do with Windows Restart Manager, but my research thus far has not led me to a solution or even why it would not release the user files after the user has logged off.
I am also unable to ascertain how to turn off the service or process not sure which it is or if it is even possible to do so, at least without unwanted consequences. Sorry, I have been busy with other projects and haven't had time to respond. I did want to ask if under our circumstances, would there be any cached copies of the user profile across the domain?
We are a small company with only one terminal server. The users do not log in to any other server. They do access file shares on other servers, but this is the only server they would have a user profile on. Would this script still work in this instance? I should have some time today to give it a try.
Scripts aren't my strong suit, so I wanted to make sure it would be appropriate to my circumstances, since we only have a single terminal server.
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