Is it true that once files are deleted from the recycling bin (or “trash” via Mac), they remain stored somewhere on a hard drive? If so, wouldn’t this still fill up space?
If you can fully delete them, are the files actually destroyed in a sense?
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Basically, your computer has a list of all the files on the disk and where they are on the hard drive. When you delete a file, it just gets removed from the list, but the data remains on the drive. The next time a file is created, the OS will try to fill the gap by writing in the space that it no longer considers to be occupied by the old file.
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