What is the recycling bin? Is it just a folder with a custom skin?
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It has a few more features than that. Each file in the recycling bin usually comes with a timer for how long it’s been in there, and you can set a rule for when a file should be permanently deleted (e.g. after it’s been in the recycling bin for more than 30 days). The recycling bin also keeps track of where files were before you moved them to the bin, so that you can restore them with a single click. And often, files in the recycling bin are no longer accessible to apps – only through the file system itself (so e.g. you can’t play a movie file that’s in the recycling bin). All of this of course provides you with a safe way to mark files for deletion, which gives you an “undo” option in case you make a mistake. So it is like a regular folder, but with an additional layer of management built on top by the operating system.
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