Where Deleted Files Go

When you delete a file, it doesn't just disappear...

#ProjectNightfall #technology #facts

[riki]

>deletes file
>downloads a recovery software
>recovery software overrides the deleted file

[gamin]

Damn that's actually interesting that a file doesn't really get deleted it just isn't detected by your OS

[plackeracki]

Bro really made deleting a file sound like a horror movie 💀

[YeenMage]

This is also dangerous: If you discarded your laptop after simply "deleting" your files, hackers can still pick up your discarded computer and recover whatever sensitive files you have there. Make sure to destroy your physical drives properly before disposing them.

[Galaxy-oe]

This is exactly why a lot of organizations and peoples "deletes" files by physically destroying the hardware

[hmnotfound]

Nah bro really had me thinking that it's gonna harm my pc in the first half

[petachad]

If you want to actually delete a file, you have to use a an actual deletion software, it basically just overrites every bit of your storage so nothing can be recovered. But it takes a long long time, but its better than being arrested... Wait i said nothing

[Brickreal]

Bro literally explained it like a whole damn horror movie

[arc]

Same goes for quick formatting. Only the storage drive's TOC (Table of Contents) is deleted, while the actual data chunks remain intact. You can imagine it as a manager only removes the references of a document (such as its name and where it is stored), not the document itself.

I'm a hard drive collector, and fully formatting the drives is a mandatory part because, y'know. Depending on the size and the speed of the drive, the time it takes to completely erase a drive will range from a couple of minutes to nearly three hours, excluding the latency.

[davidgaming]

Only if I saw this when you uploaded it

[AMITAVABERA-igno]

SSDs : allow us to introduce ourselves

[Fates-End]

it's generally only true for small files(10, maybe 20 megs) big files won't be normally recoverable once perma deleted

[_DreamzGaming]

**downloads recovery software**
**file gets overwritten with the recovery software**

[sheepriderkiller]

this is how we are taught to delete an element (in a vector), we don't erase it, we just overwrite it

[CreeperGd]

If the FBI searches my computer, I'm screwed then.

[purplebeaste]

You're speaking as if someone died from deleting their file

[thefakecoconut]

Ur telling me, that random file is still taking up storage 💀

[CT_Space]

So this is the reason why some viruses stayed on the computer even after removal

[Progamer_]

Bruh I though my old photo could be recovered which was deleted 6 years ago 💀

[Kidthatlikestech]

The real reason for this is because fully deleting the files uses the limited amount of reads and writes the SSD or Hard Drive has so its simpler to just pretend its gone but you can download software to fully delete the file if its private/confidential