iBin Protects Your Files on Flash Drives from Accidental Deletions

As many of us have sadly found out, the Recycle Bin, temp storage for deleted files, doesn't work for flash drives. Delete a file on a flash drive and decide you need it later and there's a good chance you are SOL. Standard Windows drives are protected, yet network and flash drives are not. iBin is an Autohotkey script that can be run off of your flash drive to protect any of the files from accidental deletion. Run this program and any files that are intentionally deleted are moved into a user configurable space on the flash drive and kept until the space is needed. This extra recycle bin can be managed from the application and emptied or expanded as you see fit. All deleted files stay on the drive even when moved from computer to computer.

There are other ways to recover some deleted files from flash drives, but most of those only work if the space doesn't get reused. Also note that this only protects files that you manually delete, files that get deleted by other programs or processes they won't be picked up. Check out the parent project AutoHotKey for a huge variety of programs. AutoHotkey and AutoIt are very handy scripting programs that have a very active user community turning out dozens of very handy script-lets like spell checking and a slick program launcher. Besides being free and open source, AutoHotkey is perfectly portable, easily running from a flash drive. Come up with a script you really like, the included compiler allows you to turn it into a stand-alone executable. Pick up iBin here and AutoHotkey for your own dabblings here.