Listing files in recycle bin

Question

I want to list the files that are in the recycle bin in Vista from the command line. So far I have this:

dir C:\$Recycle.Bin /s /b >> recyclebin.txt

This works alright, the output I get is this:

C:\$Recycle.bin\S-1-5-21-931442927-344369455-2477061601-1000\$I2H8K48.zip C:\$Recycle.bin\S-1-5-21-931442927-344369455-2477061601-1000\$IE94UAG.exe C:\$Recycle.bin\S-1-5-21-931442927-344369455-2477061601-1000\$IR4P99W.rar C:\$Recycle.bin\S-1-5-21-931442927-344369455-2477061601-1000\$R2H8K48.zip C:\$Recycle.bin\S-1-5-21-931442927-344369455-2477061601-1000\$RE94UAG.exe C:\$Recycle.bin\S-1-5-21-931442927-344369455-2477061601-1000\$RR4P99W.rar

And I only have 3 files in my recycle bin named auto-it-v3-setup.exe, fcleanerportable.rar and Reinstall.rar.

Is there any way to get these names into a .txt file list, rather than those code-named files above?

Answer 1

To list files in Recycle Bin by their original location using PowerShell (save as file.ps1, remove line breaks before | so that you get only two lines):

(New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).NameSpace(0x0a).Items()
|select @{n="OriginalLocation";e={$_.ExtendedProperty("{9B174B33-40FF-11D2-A27E-00C04FC30871} 2")}},Name
| export-csv -delimiter "\" -path C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\recycleBinFiles.txt -NoTypeInformation

(gc C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\recycleBinFiles.txt | select -Skip 1)
| % {$_.Replace('"','')}
| set-content C:\Users\UserName\Desktop\recycleBinFiles.txt