Good answer, Wayne. While people are asking about this, are people here doing routine maintenance -- cleaning, compacting, defragmenting? A good batch of tips can be read at http://www.fhsu.edu/ctc/helpdesk/computers/computer-maintenance/ Elaine (enjoying a brand new great-granddaughter born today) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. --Oscar Wilde Hello Wayne On Monday, March 11, 2013, you wrote > When the "trash" is emptied, the operating > system overwrites a character or > two of the title and makes that space occupied > by the data to be available > to be overwritten by new files. If you are > sending files to the trash bin, > they are held in reserve so you can recover > them until the trash is emptied. > Even though the file has been made available to > be overwritten, it can still > be recovered by using third party utilities > that may be able to recover all > or part of the file until it is completely overwritten. > Aloha > Wayne, NH6K

Congratulations on your new great-granddaughter; that's extra-special!! On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:44 PM, ETM <[email protected]> wrote: > Good answer, Wayne. While people are asking about > this, are people here doing routine maintenance -- > cleaning, compacting, defragmenting? A good batch > of tips can be read at > > http://www.fhsu.edu/ctc/helpdesk/computers/computer-maintenance/ > > Elaine (enjoying a brand new great-granddaughter > born today) > > A man can't be too careful in the choice of his > enemies. --Oscar Wilde > > Hello Wayne > > On Monday, March 11, 2013, you wrote > > > When the "trash" is emptied, the operating > > system overwrites a character or > > two of the title and makes that space occupied > > by the data to be available > > to be overwritten by new files. If you are > > sending files to the trash bin, > > they are held in reserve so you can recover > > them until the trash is emptied. > > > > Even though the file has been made available to > > be overwritten, it can still > > be recovered by using third party utilities > > that may be able to recover all > > or part of the file until it is completely overwritten. > > > Aloha > > Wayne, NH6K > > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- ===== Kathleen Bowen Simons Falls Church, Virginia "I don't really care that they label me a Jesus freak - there ain't no disguising the truth." DC Talk & Newsboys, "Jesus Freak"