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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When the file *isn’t* deleted, the computer registers it as taking up space. So, the computer won’t get rid of it. When you delete it, the data is still there, but now the computer is like, “OK, I can overwrite this with something else.” To the computer, the space is available. On the hard drive, the space is occupied… until it gets changed with something else.
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