What is a computer actually doing when it fully deletes a file, and why are some files too big to go into the trash so they have to be “deleted permanently?”
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The trashbin is just a folder that isn’t really special except it remembers where the stuff came from before.
So files in it aren’t deleted at all yet.
If you actually delete a file it’s space in the memory is just declared empty. So the bits stay, but other programs can claim the space to save their own bits by then overwriting the old files for good
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