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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A few reasons: either the two copies of the same file were actually from different locations/folders – so technically they’re _different files_, or they’re different copies of of the same file (i.e. same “Original Location”) but from different times.

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