Want to bring your buried files rising from the dead (or rather deleted) or practice some archaic sorcery? Not to worry - this thread’s got you covered.

If you know a wee bit about how computer memory works, you would most probably know that stuff deleted from computer machines (or any equivalent digital device that can retain information) is not actually deleted. It is kept in the memory (more like Stack Overflow answers that you deleted) although not virtually shown to us. One may argue that the space is shown to be freed after deletion, but in reality, it is still being consumed by the deleted files, whatsoever they may be.

Now the question to that would be - How is it then that we can store other data for the space that has been virtually freed? The answer to that is, that the data is not deleted, but it is replaced when you bring in new files (which occupy the same space in memory, replacing your deleted files eventually) part by part.

The deleted data is still a remnant for a period of time, until other files eventually replace them in memory. Yet another question could arise from this, which is the topic for this article - “Can we recover our deleted files?”

Absolutely, as long as the deleted files are not replaced. (note that some files might be partially there, i.e. some portion of them have been replaced, whereas the remaining part can be recovered - which often leads to corrupted files; and some would be compressed versions upon renaissance, with the most common example being multimedia files such as images and videos) You can use software like Recuva and Disk Drill for this, wherein they offer the functionality of a necromancer.

Anirban

01/14/20