title: Finding the Recycle Bin on a local NTFS drive
body: <p>I'm trying to write some simple code that will return the directory for the recycle bin on a local drive.  Seems like it would be simple -- should be a thousand answers on Google.  Haven't found one yet :(</p>
  
  <p>I HAVE found that FAT and NTFS drives have different base names (RECYCLED and RECYCLER).  I've found that 'the' recycle bin is a virtual folder that combines the recycle bins of all drives on the machine.</p>
  
  <p>What I haven't found is a way to find C: drive's recycle bin directory -- even on a Vietnamese (or any other non-English) machine.  (No posts I can find indicate whether "RECYCLER" gets internationalized or not)</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone point me to a definitive answer?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE: Aware of <code>CSIDL_BITBUCKET</code> and the functions that use it.  From everything I've read though, it points to a <em>virtual</em> directory which is the union of all deleted files by that user on all drives.  Looking for the physical recycle bin directory  (on my Vista it appears to be C:\$Recycle.Bin as far as I can tell)</p>