Why does deleting things clear storage even though the pc only can’t find it?
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Deleting a file hides the file from you, however your computer can still find the data as it knows exactly where it is. But it marks the space as available. So when there is a need to find storage space on your hard drive, either because you want to store more data on it or just to tidy up the existing data to make it easier to access, the computer might pick the storage that contains the data for the deleted file. It is first at this point that the data will get deleted as it is overwritten with the new data.
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