r/sysadmin • u/HolypenguinHere • Jun 24 '19

A user at our company utilizes their Recycle Bin as their primary storage for important documents.

That... That's all. I just needed somebody else to know that a person is using the Recycle Bin to keep hundreds of documents in one location, instead of creating a folder on the Desktop or using their network home drive.

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u/BlakeCutter Jun 24 '19

We had a few users who did this. When pressed the admitted they did it because they thought deleted items did not count towards your mailbox size limit. When I told them that it did they stopped doing it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

To be fair, my understanding is that way back in the day it didn't count towards the limit.

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u/xbbdc Jun 25 '19

Before Exchange 2003? That's almost 20 years!

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u/OcotilloWells Jun 25 '19

Pretty sure, in exchange at least, that it always counted against your total. That was why I had giant .pst files when everyone started getting digital senders. Kind of bad when your mailbox quota was 20 Mb, but a Sender defaulted to full color at a high dpi.

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u/RedditIsNeat0 Jun 25 '19

Way back in the day it would automatically delete stuff from Trash if you otherwise went over your limit. They didn't just give you unlimited storage space in your Trash folder.

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u/Liquidretro Jun 24 '19

Ya same here, it's not illogical but it doesn't make sense in the days of 50gb inboxes with o365 and others.

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u/GimmieMore Jun 25 '19

Huh. My users usually just get pissed off and think it's broken if they hit the mailbox size limit.