where does your recycle items go?

Question

when you empty your recycle, where do the items go & is there somewhere you can go to delete them thenHow do I know what I have on my computer that is going nowhere that I can delete to give me more memory or how can I find it?

Answer 1

they remain where they are until some other data is written over that space

Answer 2

OK, I'll try to keep it relatively simple...

A file consist of data stored on the disk. A file system references the location of the data and stores a "pointer" to the data so that the operating system can present the data to the user. When you see that a file is in a directory, what you really are getting a structured view of the relationship of the pointers to the files (i.e. directory X contains files A, B, and C). When you delete a file, the pointer for the file is moved into the Recycle Bin folder. This doesn't mean that the data itself is moved, just the pointers parent directory reference. When you empty the Recycle Bin, the pointer to the data on the disk is dropped and the space on the disk is now available for reuse for new files. This doesn't mean that the disk space is emptied of content, it just means that it can be overwritten in the future. Once you delete and empty the Recycle Bin, you pretty much don't need to worry about the disk space other than an occasional disk defragmentation (Fragmentation results from frequent write/delete of files. Writing a file generally look for an available space on disk where the file can be completely written in sequence on the disk. If necessary, the files will be broken into parts, aka fragments, and disk access time can increase. Defragmenting your disk attempts to rearrange the data to be sequential.)

Answer 3

when you empty the recycle bin the files in it are still there but the space they took up on your hard disk is marked for reuse.
if you use the right software they're recoverable until windows overwrites them

Answer 4

Once you remove it from the recylce bin, it's long gone.

Answer 5

nowhere just out of da computer