16th February 2006, 7:34 PM
I got to work with a guy who does file recovery, so you're full of shit, thank you for playing, go home. A file is always on your computer, it never, ever leaves, until it is over writen. the recycle bin acts like a folder as you said, that tells the computer that these files can be overwriten and the date and time they were put in the 'folder'. That's why you put them there, even after they're gone thy can still be recovered by special file recovery which will take the huge chunk or cluster and fill in the holes with the appropriate data to recover the full file. if only a small chunk can be recovered, then it will hhave massive holes meaning that only a few parts of the file can be recovered.
When you hold shift, or if 'The file is to big for the recycle bin', you're simply not logging the deletion of the file. It's removed from the shell of the OS but still on your HDD, it is only now marked as 'to be overwriten'. Pressing shift means that you can easily recover the file, but a special program can. A file is only permanently deleted when it is over writen, that is a fact.
When you hold shift, or if 'The file is to big for the recycle bin', you're simply not logging the deletion of the file. It's removed from the shell of the OS but still on your HDD, it is only now marked as 'to be overwriten'. Pressing shift means that you can easily recover the file, but a special program can. A file is only permanently deleted when it is over writen, that is a fact.