In computingis called recycle bin to that storage area that all modern operating systems present to which computer files that are considered useless in the first instance and have been decided to delete from a computer’s memory are sentthat is, any file that we delete from our computer will be sent directly to this area so that it remains there until the final deletion is carried out.
What facilitates this function is that, for example, if a file was quickly and inadvertently deleted from a folder or was done by mistake, the aforementioned area will allow you to recover it by right-clicking on the file in question and accepting the restore function. element. If the latter is what has happened to us and we restore an item from the recycle bin, it will be returned to its original location, or rather, it will go back to the one from which it was deleted.
In the specific case of Microsoftit incorporated the recycle bin into the system in the Windows 95 with the aim of continuing to maintain those files that had been accidentally or intentionally deleted, giving the user a second chance to review the file again before deleting it permanently.
The most original and important thing about this function is that it stores the information with date, time and the location in which the files were initially located.
Access to the trash can is very simple, from the desktop, through the recycle bin icon, meanwhile, its icon tells us if there are items to delete or not, if it is full of crumpled papers it tells us that there are items inside and if, on the other hand, it is empty, it implies that there are no elements waiting to be eliminated.
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