# No files are displayed when loading drive root directory
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-files-are-displayed-when-loading-drive-root-directory/43902
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [December 16, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-files-are-displayed-when-loading-drive-root-directory/43902 "2018-12-16T17:57:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-files-are-displayed-when-loading-drive-root-directory/43902/1 "2018-12-16T17:57:25Z")
If you try to load a drive root directory (for example, W:\), no files are displayed in the file list.
This happens whether or not "Subdirectories" is check-marked at Options \> Directories.
This is new behaviour, starting with ver 2.91a.
I suspect this is caused by the changes made to stop loading files from the recycle bin.
See here: [Changing directory to hard drive loads files from recycle bin](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-directory-to-hard-drive-loads-files-from-recycle-bin/17833)
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-files-are-displayed-when-loading-drive-root-directory/43902/2 "2018-12-17T09:18:02Z")
Thanks for reporting! I was trying to solve the issue by testing for the system and hidden attributes, but I guess this was overly optimistic.
Seems like I need to perform some serious shell-fu, to detect if a directory is a recylce bin or not. I'll keep you posted.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2018, 11:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-files-are-displayed-when-loading-drive-root-directory/43902/3 "2018-12-22T11:51:03Z")
I've fixed this with [Mp3tag v2.91b](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455). Thanks again for pointing!
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2019, 11:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-files-are-displayed-when-loading-drive-root-directory/43902/4 "2019-01-21T11:51:07Z")
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