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I was getting ready for my CIO summit presentation and saved my pretty large deck to my site and got a nice "out of disk space" warning. So I quickly found some presentations that were old and deleted them. I didn't have time to go to the storage manager page to see how much space I freed up, so I tried to upload again. Failed. Again deleted a pretty hefty PPT. Again failed. Man what's going on I thought... I still didn't have time to go to Storman to look, so I picked another site. After my presentation, I'm sitting here and I realize DOH! (In the words of Homer Simpson property of Fox Network.) I was just sending those docs to the recycle bin, I wasn't freeing up disk space. I should know that. (Why would I share this embarassing moment? To save you from making the same mistake.)
Lesson learned. If you're deleting content and it goes to the recycle bin, it will count against your quota for the user recycle bin (even if you're site collection admin). The second stage does not count against your site collection quota. So unless there's a compliance or security issue never forcibly remove items from the site collection recycle bin aka 2nd stage. Note: You'll notice in the UI that we made it easy to flush the first stage, but the second stage, you have to check the boxes (no check all). Another safetynet to prevent your site collection administrators from thinking that 2nd stage is using up quota and needs to be flushed.
More on the recycle bin:
View, Restore, Delete items in the Recycle bin:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA100214341033.aspx
More info on the Timer Job "job-recycle-bin-cleanup" that does the actual clean up of the recycle bin from Matt Groves.
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mattg/archive/2007/03/08/starting-timer-jobs-manually-recycle-bin.aspx
If you download a copy of CCleaner or DCleaner you can quickly flush a few gigs off your HD in various temp/cache files. In some cases, I got back a full 5GB. Plus you can checkbox what it removes as some stuff you might want to keep (ex: IE cache).
I'm trying to find out where both the recycle bins store their data, but Google has not supplied me with an answer yet. We are always short on diskspace, so need strict capacity management. We have 50 Gb databases and should be able to place 50 1-Gb sitecollections in it. I would assume the first stage is in the same database as the silecollection, as it counts against the sitecollection quota. If the second stage recycle bin however also stores its data in the same content database as the sitecollection is in, we should lower the maximum limit of the amount of sites in a database accordingly. I hope someone knows the answer.