Windows 10: OneDrive DELETED 15000 files from my external HDD folder-stuck in bin

So I just installed windows 10, and i had my onedrive folder on an external HDD- and as I am watching it - it AUTOMATICALLY DELETED 15000 OF MY RANDOM FILES AND WHEN I TRY TO RESTORE THEM IN RECYCLE BIN - I GET "ERROR" - PREPARING TO MOVE "DISCOVERED 0 ITEMS".

What do I do? How do I restore these files, when they seem stuck in the recycle bin?

I am dual booting, but even though they are in recycle bin - I can´t see them even on the other install of my Win 8.
So how do I please restore these files?

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Win10 won't let me shred files from my OneDrive folders: why?

Thanks for the reply

However, if I go to the notification area, right click the OneDrive icon and click on settings there is no 'Choose Folders' option.

Also, I now have nothing left in OneDrive.

I have transferred all photos and files to an external HDD and have deleted everything in OneDrive but for some reason I'm still unable to shred all my photos/files from my Recycle Bin

I desperately want to free up space on my HDD but I'm being prevented from doing so.

How dare OnedDrive hijack my self-determination!!!

 

How to empty external drive using recycle bin on Windows 10 computer.

Don't see what the big problem is. Normally Windows
may or may not create Recycle Bin folders on removable drives depending on their size (smaller ones don't have them though I don't know the exact threshold).

So if your external drive doesn't have a Recycle Bin folder (in Win10 it'll be named $Recycle.Bin) then any file you delete will be permanently deleted, just as if you had pressed Shift+Del instead of Del.

If your external drive does have a Recycle Bin folder however, then any files you delete from the drive will go into that folder and simply be visible in the Recycle Bin shown on your desktop. The same way that files deleted from any internal drive will
show up in the same desktop Recycle Bin, files deleted from external drives with Recycle Bin folders will also show up there.

In short, double-click the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop and in the resulting unified view you'll be able to see files deleted from external drives (with Recycle Bin folders) too.
You can then select and delete some of them permanently, or simply empty the Recycle Bin to get rid of all of them.

In certain cases the external drive's Recycle Bin folder can get unlinked from the system's Recycle Bin, leading to deleted files in the former not showing up in the latter. In that situation you can try either Disk Cleanup, or better still delete the folder
itself from File Explorer or the command prompt. Windows will automatically recreate it next time the drive's accessed.