Re: How can file be permanently deleted but still recoverable

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Thanks for replying to my post
Can you elaborate what you mean by removes the reference to it. what do you
mean by reference. Is it true that when a file gets deleted a letter from the
filename gets removed and replaced with another character or something like
that.

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Deleting a file just removes the reference to it, and marks the space it
> occupies as available. The file itself and the space it occupies remains "as
> is" until something overwrites it. This is the basis of the many recovery
> programs, as they identify these files and allow a user to "recover" them.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "new office 2003 user" <newoffice2003user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> in message news:3D19F9E7-D477-4E19-AEE8-A4076F421C75@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi
> > why do people say that they have deleted a file from their computer but if
> > someone has enough knowledge or certain forensic software they can still
> > retrieve this file that was supposably deleted. If they can retrieve it
> > then
> > it is not deleted. and when the file is supposably deleted but still in
> > your
> > computer is there a difference in the space that it takes in hidden areas
> > of
> > your computer. I would imagine that they would be compressed or sometthing
> > else.
>
>
>
.

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