Submission details
recycle bin
ok,i was just looking at my desktop and noticed the trash (recycle bin) has a recycle sign on it and its called the recycle bin...dont notice the problem? i didnt either until i thought about it. we delete stuff into there,we dont reuse it, we throw it away.so why isnt it called a trash bin or garbage?
change the icon and name
Low
Low
Not fixed
Discussion (6 comments)
i know i did. you have a good point too though.
This makes me laugh...
but you CAN rename it if you wish.....
I promoted, because this is funny (in the good way) and not to menton to piss off those who take the site so serously. lay off people.
You do "reuse" the space the file was taking up on your HDD though. Not a perfect explanation, I know.
Actually, you aren't seeing the big picture with the recycle bin process. When you delete something it's thrown into the Recycle Bin. When the Recycle Bin is emptied all of those files are flagged as free space. The actual 1s and 0s are never wiped. As you create more files and fill up your hard drive new files overwrite old data that has been marked as free. That's why when you use a file recovery program like Recuva you can recover files that were in the recycle bin by accident when you emptied it.
I know that. In sumer 2006, i did a recovery and i got files from december 2005
nitrous9200 wrote on November 13, 2008, 3:27am
Because you can get files out of it, they aren't gone forever when you throw them in the trash. If it bothers you so much, you can rename it to whatever you want and change the icon as well.