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[jrbilodeau]

Any chance that the recycle bin will be integrated in this new firmware. I had originally posted a way to do it, although not perfect if worked for my home needs. but there was a comment from a dlink mod in
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=3813.0 which stated

"We are adding it to 1.03 on our 4 bay device so more than likely it will be available from version 1.07 and beyond for the DNS-323."

since 1.07 was just a Hard Drive support fix i assume that this means it should be implemented in 1.08

Could dlink please confirm if this is in fact correct. I know that this has been a fairly popular request.

thanks

[D-Link Multimedia]

As of right now it is not included in any of our systems. We are still evaluating adding it to our current NAS however just adding it and all users will see the same recycle bin is not a suitable implementation for us.

[jrbilodeau]

Ok, hopefully there is a way to add this in the future as it would be really handy. And i do understand why implementing what i had posted isn't suitable for Dlink to implement due to security issues of a shared recycle bin. for my personal need though it was sufficient since it is only my wife and myself that use it in our home.

i has saved me at least once or twice from accidental file deletions since i implemented it.

Thank you for the continued developement on the DNS-323

[gunrunnerjohn]

This is the very reason that standard Microsoft networking doesn't have a recycle bin.  It's not a trivial task.  Surely you have noticed that when you delete a file from a shared drive on another machine it's really gone, right?

[jrbilodeau]

Yes but there is such a thing as a network recycle bin, i've used it at work before. I know that it may not be the easiest thing to do, but you could always do something like an administrator level recycle bin. use the way that i had posted to enable the recycle bin and then chmod the recycle bin to only allow the admin to view and use it.

im just being hopefull, because at the time Dlimk said that they were planing on implementing it.

[gunrunnerjohn]

There are 3rd party applications that add a network recycle bin, but they're not cheap and most certainly not bulletproof.  In any case, it's not a trivial task, which was the D-Link rep's point.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great idea, but with the limited FLASH in these units, I don't expect to see one any time soon.

[ttmcmurry]

because at the time Dlimk said that they were planing on implementing it.

I can't find the link, but i believe the functional word was evaulating the feature.  Gunrunnerjohn is right, it isn't easy to implement.  If D-Link really wanted to do this, (and this is really only my opinion) they would best accomplish this by licensing that feature from another company who has a working Recycle-Bin-In-Linux-On-SAMBA and implementing it in a future product.  Deals like that usually involve royalties so I wouldn't expect, if debuted in a new product, to be backported to an older product like the 323.

[jrbilodeau]

The link was in my first post and it said

"We are adding it to 1.03 on our 4 bay device so more than likely it will be available from version 1.07 and beyond for the DNS-323."

but anyway, i guess i'll just keep the solution that i have. no worries

[grand11]

This is the very reason that standard Microsoft networking doesn't have a recycle bin.  It's not a trivial task.  Surely you have noticed that when you delete a file from a shared drive on another machine it's really gone, right?

Novell had a network recycle bin sense 3.x over 12 years ago (salvage and purge).  Any modern netapp filer has one today.  Even Windows has actaully been able to do a form of it with VSS if your techs know what they are doing (check the previous version tab of any file/folder on a network and if VSS is setup correctly you can recover the deleted data no problem).

[gunrunnerjohn]

Did you ever price Netware back then?  They could afford to spend the development money.

[darkmantis]

If you accidentally delete a file, it can easily be recovered by using 3rd party data recovery software to read it off the linux partition.