US Patent 8738571 Extended recycle bin

This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for removing a file from an extended recycle bin. In some embodiments, this includes receiving a deletion request of the file from the extended recycle bin, determining a prevent delete setting of the extended recycle bin, deleting the file from the extended recycle bin if the prevent delete setting is enabled, prevent deletion of a corresponding file from a secondary storage, deleting the file from the extended recycle bin if the prevent delete setting is not enabled, and deleting the corresponding file from the secondary storage.