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13th April 2022, 06:20 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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Why Do They Call it a Recycle Bin
Why isn't it called just a Bin as recycle implies the contents will be re-used in another form?
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13th April 2022, 06:39 PM #2
It was designed by a committee
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Maybe because it sounds "green"?
But it has more to do with disc space being reused/recovere.
Fpm Macrumors
once upon a time windows stole the idea (big suprise right?) of a "trash can" from apple... apple sued so microsoft had to change it!
The recycle bin makes little sense as a concept, unless you have a geek awareness of bits and bytes -- which of course few users do. Apple also spent quite a bit of effort determining that placing icons on the right side of the desktop has cognitive advantages. Microsoft swapped them to the left just to be different, and because they don't care about human engineering.
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13th April 2022, 09:50 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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Because there is a maximum limit to how much stuff can be deleted before the space allocated to the 'bin' runs out. Then FIFO rules take over ie the oldest thing you deleted has its space 'recycled' to allow for the newest thing you deleted to be held in this mini purgatory.
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I thought you were talking about one of these!
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