Eli5 Why can’t there be 2 files with the same name in the same directory but in the recycle bin, it’ll allow it?

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Eli5 Why can’t there be 2 files with the same name in the same directory but in the recycle bin, it’ll allow it?

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When Windows moves a file into the Recycle Bin, it actually renames it. For instance, I just put an empty file called Test.TXT into my Recycle Bin and then looked at the appropriate location using Powershell, and I can see there are now two files in there: $I6A9Y6N.txt and $R6A9Y6N.txt. One of these is the actual file, moved and renamed, and the other is a file containing the information of where that file came from and its original name. If I put another Test.TXT in there then another two .TXT files with weird names show up, and so on.