Where do deleted files go? Do they really get deleted and if so, how?
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They do not actually get deleted, the index to find them gets deleted. Then they are not easy to look up. They are still there and can be printed over by future additions to the computer. This is why they are so easy to recover. Sometimes even written over records are recoverable. The only way to truly delete is destroy the hard drive. Over writing repeatedly makes it harder to recover and the more times over written the harder to recover parts.
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