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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 360895" data-attributes="member: 13090">Jeez... Relax. I know the files are not ACTUALLY erased from the medium, it's a freaking figure of speech. Gauging from the OP, I saw no point in going into what I considered unnecessary technical detail about Master File Table space allocations, but I'm certainly qualified to do so if you'd like. For the typical end-user, clearing the pointers in the MFT "erases" the file. In fact, since we're splitting hairs, your response is technically incorrect: The memory space is not actually reallocated, is it? No, it's not; the reference pointers for previously used memory locations, are zero'ed, indicating the space is free for future writing operations. Cheers........</blockquote>