Improve handling of permission elevation

[Hissymaster]

Description

for whatever reason, deleting files permanantly from the recycle bin is... odd...

Steps To Reproduce

1. go to the recycle bin folder "Shell:RecycleBinFolder"
2. select a folder with many subfolders.
3. attempt deleting it
4. refresh
5. it's back? why?

Requirements

Files Version

3.6.1.0

Windows Version

10.0.22631.4037

Log File

debug.log

[0x5bfa]

Thanks for reaching out.

How many (approx) did you delete?

[Hissymaster]

It appears to struggle with handling files managed or owned by an administrator account? Or at least an account in a higher level than a normal user.

[Hissymaster]

It not just the recycle bin. I don't think the program is properly handling UAC elevation.

[Hissymaster]

It appears to me that when it runs into a folder OR FILE that needs more permissions that a base user, it fails to properly ask or elevate and everything falls apart, but files doesn't properly catch that.

[0x5bfa]

Thanks for the heads up.

• Does that happen only on delete operation?
• When deleting them, Status Center displays a status for it?

[Hissymaster]

It affects any action. And although it appears to be complete in the status centre, refreshing tells you otherwise.

[STGYO]

I am also facing the same issue here. If I want to empty my recycle bin from the files app in the sidebar, the file is not getting deleted at all and remains in the folder. I can only go to the desktop to empty my recycle bin. But from the desktop the recycle bin folder from the files app is not opening by double-clicking at all.

[Hissymaster]

And it also appears files struggles with a lot of bulk delete, bulk move and other bulk actions

[Hissymaster]

it also seems to struggle deleting empty folders, if that helps.

[0x5bfa]

it also seems to struggle deleting empty folders, if that helps.

Is that folder lesser permission? Like, you (if you're admin Administrators group otherwise Users group, more specifically your own) don't have permission of 'Delete' access control?