Is Recycle Bin Empty Action

The Is Recycle Bin Empty action will scan the current user's Recycle Bin and report the total items, total size of items and if the bin is empty or not.

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Fail if recycle bin is not empty

Choose this option if you want the action to fail if the Recycle Bin still contains at least one item

Log each item

Each file and folder in the recycle bin will be written to the log

Put recycle bin status in variable

Select the variable to write the status of the recycle bin to, Is Empty = true.

Calculate total size of items

The total size of the items in the recycle bin will be added up and written to the log (in KB)

Put total size in variable

Select the variable to write the total size of items to (in KB)

To empty the Recycle Bin, use the Empty Recycle Bin action