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Of course, ideally windows should do that behind the curtains itself...
by captainmuon 9y ago
Of course, ideally windows should do that behind the curtains itself...
- icebraining 9y agoThat's essentially what sending to the Trash does, AFAIK.
- softawre 9y agoYep. Recycle bin is a hidden folder that exists on every drive.
- coldtea 9y agoSending to the trash doesn't free the space until you empty the trash.
- reificator 9y agoYes but it frees the path to be used for new/replacement files "immediately".
- coldtea 9y agoNot if you don't have the space.
- reificator 9y agoWhich is why the first comment in the chain led with that caveat.
- kasabali 9y agoiirc trash in Windows has a quota so it should trim eventually
- maxxxxx 9y agoSending to the trash still takes an eternity.
- captainmuon 9y agoYes, but then emptying the trash takes forever. I mean when Shift+Deleting, or emptying the trash, Windows should: - mark the folder as "garbage" in the filesystem and rename it to something impossible to free up the name - hide the folder from the UI (apps should not see the file anymore) - schedule a real deletion (reclaiming the space) with low priority in the background - in case of a crash, chkdisk should detect garbage files and delete them.
- Houshalter 9y agoWho cares how long it takes to empty the trash? It solves the problem of freeing the name and removing it from view of the user instantly. Your solution wouldn't make emptying the trash any faster.
- maxxxxx 9y agoEmptying the trash slows down the machine a lot so other processes are suffering.
- ams6110 9y agoAnything in windows seems to have the potential to slow down the machine a lot. I'm not sure why that is but process priorities don't seem to be well implemented. Turning off Windows Defender makes Windows Update run much faster.
- maxxxxx 9y agoI remember somebody at Microsoft explained the trash in Windows to me in a similar way. The problem is that from observation it doesn;t seem to work that way....