使用 PowerShell 检查回收站是否损坏

Question

On Windows, if the Recycle Bin is corrupted, a prompt similar to the image below is shown in the Windows GUI:

I'd like to automate a check for this using PowerShell. How can I check if the recycle bin under a mountpoint (whether it's a directory mount or letter drive) is corrupted? The only cmdlet I've found in PowerShell relating to the recycle bin is Clear-RecycleBin . I've also looked at how to perform this from C# and only found methods to P/Invoke to the Win32 API to clear the recycle bin, but nothing on how to check the recycle bin's integrity programmatically.

Answer 1

Perhaps something like this works for you:

$bin = 'C:\$Recycle.Bin'
try {
    $items = Get-ChildItem -Path $bin -Force -ErrorAction Stop
    Write-Host "$bin seems just fine. Contains $($items.Count) items." -ForegroundColor Green
}
catch {
    Write-Host "$bin looks corrupted.." -ForegroundColor Red
}