Recovered Files folder in trash

[Taz Mangus]

I have been noticing that off and on I see one or more instances of the Recovered Files folder showing in the trash. Most of the time they are empty. I have not been experiencing any crashes on my system and there are any crash reports in console app. Seems to only show up when I restart the computer. Curious why these show up.

 

[Taz Mangus]

I think you misunderstood what I was asking. Nothing was deleted from my system, certainly not by me or any user. It is just operating normally. If I manually restart the computer, when a user logins to their account, in the trash is an empty folder named Recovered Files (could also be files Recovered Files #1, Recovered Files #2, etc). I was curious why these are being auto generated in the user trash whenever I restart?

EDIT: I understand the process required to recover deleted files. Just curious why the system is generating these folders in the trash. And doing it so frequently.

 

[Taz Mangus]

It appears that the Recovered Files also shows up in the trash when I logout and log back into accounts. Installing 10.15.5 and see if this still persists.
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Just updated to 10.15.5 and this still persists. Anyone else see the folder(s) Recovered Files in the trash after a restart or log out and log back in?

 

[Taz Mangus]

Just got done chatting with a senior Apple advisor. The reason why the Recovered Files folder shows up in the trash is because an application can't delete its temporary files on a unexpected shutdown or restart. It is a known issue with Catalina. But the twist in my situation is that I am logging out and back in so it is not an unexpected situation. I sent the Recovered Files folder up to Apple for them to look at. This is just a minor inconvenience bug.

 

[Taz Mangus]

An update. I have my user accounts on a separate partition and that seems to be causing the OS to generate the Recovered Files folder in the trash. I found this out when I was doing a clean install of 10.15.4. I have been doing this sort of thing for years and I have never seen Recovered Files folder in the trash before. I gave this information to Apple as part of the diagnosis.

EDIT: Also happening if the user accounts are on a separate Volume that is in the Container that holds Macintosh HD - Data.

 

[NicRumors]

Hi! Was there a continuation of the topic and an answer from Apple?

 

[bousozoku]

Recovered files in the Trash usually happen because an application tries to delete files but there are certain circumstances where the system or another application is holding onto the files and they can't be deleted.

 

[Taz Mangus]

Hi! Was there a continuation of the topic and an answer from Apple?

I have not heard anything back. This maybe addressed in Bug Sur rather then Catalina. The interesting thing in my situation is if I had a user account on the same Volume as the Macintosh HD - Data Volume I was not seeing the Recovered Files folder in the trash.

 

[NicRumors]

Hi! My problem (the appearance of Recovered Files folder in the trash after a reboot) is similar and I cannot solve it yet.