Why do trashcan icons always have the recycling symbol on them?

It's terribly confusing.

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because the storage the files takes up will be recycled for other files

Because Recycle bin is trademarked.

the data isn't fully deleted until it's been written over with new data
create file -> OS finds writable spots in storage to place new file data
create another file -> OS reads over memory spot attributed to first file, but doesn't do anything because it's only readable, then moves on to another spot in memory until it finds writable data
delete file -> OS marks previous file memory spots as writable

there's more to it but this is the very basic idea

if that's too cryptic, here's the literal:
It's recycling memory

/thread

>move file to bin with no recycle logo
>the space it was occupying goes away with it
>woAAHH

kek. was waiting for this

what would you suggest to be used instead? i think it's fairly clear what that icon is supposed to be representing.

>always
Not on Mac OS.

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The bits don't just get dumped in some landfill to sit there forever, they are recycled and re-used to store other stuff.

>be macfag
>get bullied in school for not being sufficiently environmentally friendly when removing files

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How do you recycle without gui bloat? I only ever rm -rf

mkdir trash
mv file_to_recycle trash

Because they are transferred to glowies

>the data isn't fully deleted until it's been written over with new data
Only on spinning rust with default filesystem settings

because
a. you can take things back out of it (direct recycling)
b. files which are deleted don't remove space permanently, rather the space becomes available for other files to use (indirect recycling)
nothing is actually destroyed, so recycling is a fair term to use

thank you for explaining it to me briefly and clearly

>the first post
>is correct and concise
GET THE FUCK OFF MY BOARD

ok, have it your way!
>delete file
>total disk space DECREESES by the size of the file

>HDD/SSD manufacturers' wet dream
You VILL use the storage only once and you VILL be happy