Recycle Bin can be enabled on a mapped network drive by defining a Known Folder in the registry. (Also a way to create custom user folders. For adding folders to This PC, though, it seems you need to create a CLSID entry instead; use Winaero Tweaker for that.)

Known folder.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; For folder icons, set folder to read-only and create a desktop.ini set to
; read-only|system|hidden with contents:
;   [.ShellClassInfo]
;   IconResource=C:\Path\To\Icon.ico,0

; Remember to change the guid for each known folder:
; https://www.guidgenerator.com/

; https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl_core/ns-shobjidl_core-knownfolder_definition
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{E40D77EC-D4D6-4099-9746-A81C56EA49D5}]
"Category"=dword:00000004
; The known folder name can be typed into the explorer address bar (or Run
; dialog, etc.) to navigate to the folder, e.g. "shell:Books"
"Name"="Books"
; Uncomment ParentFolder to make relative to user profile folder
; Other known folder ids: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/knownfolderid#constants
;"ParentFolder"="{5E6C858F-0E22-4760-9AFE-EA3317B67173}"
"RelativePath"="S:\\Books"

; Enables recycle bin for a location that otherwise wouldn't have one (i.e. network share)
; 500,000 MB = 0007a120
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\BitBucket\KnownFolder\{E40D77EC-D4D6-4099-9746-A81C56EA49D5}]
"MaxCapacity"=dword:0007a120
"NukeOnDelete"=dword:00000000

Hi
I am trying to implement this, but having trouble understanding some of the details.

I understand that I need to make a GUID using the GUID generator website, and substitute it in the two places where you have put your GUID, and then substitute the name of the folder I am using in the "Name" value, and substitute the path to the folder in the "Relative Path" value.

However, what do I use for the "Name" value if there is no folder in the drive, that is, the whole path is the network drive, i.e. Drive A: is mapped to "D:\Dropbox\apps\fileinbox". Also, in my case, what do I use for the "RelativePath" value... just "A:" ?

Regards
Cooky

@smartcooky99 I believe the Name is more of an internal identifier, not actually the folder name, so you can probably just put whatever makes sense, like "Fileinbox". If you scroll through the FolderDescriptions key, you'll see names like "UserProgramFiles" and "OneDriveDocuments". For the RelativePath, when there's no ParentFolder it's just the full path, so A:\\ should be right (backslashes need to be escaped; A: might work too).

OK, thanks for the prompt reply. I'll post back here once I've done it.

Yup... worked perfectly... recycles to the bin from the network drive, and restores OK as well

Didn't even need to escape the backslashes

Thank you!!