Recycle bin

To further expand on Phil's answer, when you delete a file "to the recycle
bin" the file is not physically changed in any way. The only thing that
happens is that the OS marks that file name entry as inaccessible to the
normal file handling system. The physical file data is protected from being
overwritten by other files. If you "recover" the file the name is put back
into the table so it can be addressed again.

When you delete the file from the recycle bin the file name entry and the
physical hard drive space is marked so it can be overwritten by other
filenames and data. This is a simplified explanation of what goes on in the
operating system file handling system.

"Phil Anthropist" <dont_bother DeleteThis @falseaddress.net> wrote in message
news:44f87abe@212.67.96.135...
> "Joec" wrote:
>> When a file is deleted and appears in the recycle/recovery list just how
>> was
>> this file "saved"? Is the deleted physical location of the file reserved
>> and
>> the bin just a pointer? Is the deleted file actually moved to another
>> file
>> location used by the bin function? If yes, is the file compressed? If
>> yes, is
>> the compression algortihm lossy or non-lossy?
>>
>> My basic "concern" is with image files. Will a recovered image file have
>> any
>> degradation in quality compared to its original, deleted file?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Files that are deleted to the recycle bin and then restored to their
> original location are not changed in any way.
>
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LVTravel Wrote:
> To further expand on Phil's answer, when you delete a file "to the
> recycle
> bin" the file is not physically changed in any way. The only thing
> that
> happens is that the OS marks that file name entry as inaccessible to
> the
> normal file handling system. The physical file data is protected from
> being
> overwritten by other files. If you "recover" the file the name is put
> back
> into the table so it can be addressed again.
>
> When you delete the file from the recycle bin the file name entry and
> the
> physical hard drive space is marked so it can be overwritten by other
> filenames and data. This is a simplified explanation of what goes on
> in the
> operating system file handling system.
>
> "Phil Anthropist" dont_bother RemoveThis @falseaddress.net wrote in message
> news:44f87abe@212.67.96.135...-
> "Joec" wrote:-
> When a file is deleted and appears in the recycle/recovery list just
> how
> was
> this file "saved"? Is the deleted physical location of the file
> reserved
> and
> the bin just a pointer? Is the deleted file actually moved to another
>
> file
> location used by the bin function? If yes, is the file compressed? If
>
> yes, is
> the compression algortihm lossy or non-lossy?
>
> My basic "concern" is with image files. Will a recovered image file
> have
> any
> degradation in quality compared to its original, deleted file?
>
> Thanks-
>
> Files that are deleted to the recycle bin and then restored to their
> original location are not changed in any way.
> -

What if I restore the photos and now I can't locate them? They are not
in the same area as before. How can I bring them back up from my hard
drive? Need help, thanks!




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"IGiveUP" wrote
>
> LVTravel Wrote:
>> To further expand on Phil's answer, when you delete a file "to the
>> recycle
>> bin" the file is not physically changed in any way. The only thing
>> that
>> happens is that the OS marks that file name entry as inaccessible to
>> the
>> normal file handling system. The physical file data is protected from
>> being
>> overwritten by other files. If you "recover" the file the name is put
>> back
>> into the table so it can be addressed again.
>>
>> When you delete the file from the recycle bin the file name entry and
>> the
>> physical hard drive space is marked so it can be overwritten by other
>> filenames and data. This is a simplified explanation of what goes on
>> in the
>> operating system file handling system.
>>
>> "Phil Anthropist" dont_bother RemoveThis @falseaddress.net wrote in message
>> news:44f87abe@212.67.96.135...-
>> "Joec" wrote:-
>> When a file is deleted and appears in the recycle/recovery list just
>> how
>> was
>> this file "saved"? Is the deleted physical location of the file
>> reserved
>> and
>> the bin just a pointer? Is the deleted file actually moved to another
>>
>> file
>> location used by the bin function? If yes, is the file compressed? If
>>
>> yes, is
>> the compression algortihm lossy or non-lossy?
>>
>> My basic "concern" is with image files. Will a recovered image file
>> have
>> any
>> degradation in quality compared to its original, deleted file?
>>
>> Thanks-
>>
>> Files that are deleted to the recycle bin and then restored to their
>> original location are not changed in any way.
>> -
>
> What if I restore the photos and now I can't locate them? They are not
> in the same area as before. How can I bring them back up from my hard
> drive? Need help, thanks!


You're post is unclear. Is this a hypothetical "What if"?

If you restore them, that implies they are on the drive somewhere, though
normally when restoring from the recycle bin they are placed in the original
location from which they were deleted. Use the search function from Start |
Search, to search for them by file name.

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