Is there a way to only clear a specific item from the recycle bin?

Question

I know I can empty the recycle bin for a site collection with the following:

public static bool EmptyRecycleBin(string siteCollection)
        {
            try
            {
                using (var site = new SPSite(siteCollection))
                {
                    site.RecycleBin.DeleteAll();
                }
                return true;
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Exception: {0}", ex);

                return false;
            }
        }

However this could cause issues and I'd like to only remove specific items (that I've deleted programatically) from here. Is there a way to do this or is it impossible?

Answer 1

You have to find the ID SPRecycleBinItem and use SPRecycleBinItemCollection.Delete or find the SPRecycleBinItem and use SPRecycleBinItem.Delete

This code deletes any instances of Test.png from the folder Test in the documentlibrary with rootfolder TestDocs from the recyclebin:

using (var site = new SPSite("http://sp2010"))
{
    var idsToDelete = new List<Guid>();
    foreach (SPRecycleBinItem item in site.RecycleBin)
    {
        if (item.DirName.Equals("TestDocs/Test", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
         && item.LeafName.Equals("Test.png", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            idsToDelete.Add(item.ID);
        }
    }
    site.RecycleBin.Delete(idsToDelete.ToArray());
}