when you delete a file on the computer?

Question

what happens to the energy it is made of?since matter can't be created or destroyed

Answer 1

I bet you already know this.

Answer 1. They are converted into heat. That's why you need those fans in a computer is to cool it down.

Answer 2. They are held in a file bits repository. If the repository ever runs out, then no one will be able to create files again.

Answer 3 (Correct answer)
All files are stored as bits on a disk. Those bits are represented by the direction that a very small magnet is pointing. Anytime you change data, those bits are getting rearranged. Basically, the data is always present if you have files or not. The "energy" is stored as the location of magnets, which don't get created or destroyed by creating or deleting files.

Answer 2

Its pretty much like, the information is on lots of pieces of memory, and when intact form your file, they are kind of like locked into that form. When you delete a file, you tell the computer that the peices/spaces that file was taking up are now free, and any new files or documents you create/add will replace your old one.
It may take a while for all of the spaces of the old file to be used up, but you'll never know that. That is why it is sometimes possible to recover data...the long you wait, the harder it is to get more info that has been already deleted.

Answer 3

Do some research on how Microsoft was found to be guilty of conspiring to monopolize. The Feds got warrants to search through all of their deleted files. There are "footprints" left in the computer long after the files are supposedly gone. The "energy" doesn't vanish; it assumes a different form. Just like any other form of matter.

Answer 4

simply,, when u delete a file that means u give a permission to your system to write on that file if need this location,,so its location are calculated as empty space but the file is still there but can not be seen by the system normal resources,,however it can be seen by other programe which called recover programs,, this is true till your system actually write on this area,,then it is deleted,,,there is some programs can actually delete the files by writing on their location other non important data to permenantly delete them

Answer 5

the reference to the file is deleted not the content, and until you do more deleting of other files to overwrite this one it will remain there, its a never ending cycle Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over and Over. Get It. :-)

Answer 6

i think it is just covered up with blank data