If you have a flash drive, there must have been times where you used it on computers other than yours. On those computers, if you delete a file from your flash drive, it will probably be permanently deleted or be moved to the Recycle Bin. In the first case the file cannot be easily restored. But in the second case you can simply open the Recycle Bin and restore the deleted file. You might face a problem however when you try to restore this deleted file from the Recycle Bin after you are done using the system. For instance if you used the flash drive in an internet café or on a person’s PC who regularly empties his/her Recycle Bin, you might never be able to recover the file.
A developer considered this problem, analyzed it thoroughly and concluded that the best solution was for the flash to have a built-in Recycle Bin. He then created his wonderful program, iBin.
iBin comes in the form of a 700KB ZIP archive. Upon extraction of this ZIP, you will obtain an EXE file which you should copy to your flash drive. Now run the EXE just placed in your flash drive to create your flash drive’s Recycle Bin.
The first three files in the image above are of iBin’s. The last file is a sample file. When we try to delete it, a confirmation appears asking us if we want it deleted by erasure or by moving it to the iBin folder.
By moving it to iBin we can have it available for later restoration. We can adjust the capacity options for iBin along with other options by right-clicking on its system tray icon and opening its menu.
All we have to do is put the EXE file in our flash drive, run it, and we get our flash drive’s very own Recycle Bin.
It is that simple.
Really useful! Thanks!
My Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 tells me on downloading that iBin.exe is detected as Trojan program “Trojan.Win32.Swisyn.ujx”