Talk:Recycle bin (computing)

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Actually Nautilus did not implements the Trash specification from FreeDesktop.org.

Nautilus use a simpler approach that forget the original location of the trashed file and does not record the deletion time. Actually it just move the files in a particular folder.

Overhead 19:28, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] implementations: mac os x

"Under Mac OS X, when a file is deleted in Finder, it is copied to a folder named .Trashes/ username / within the original directory, and when viewing the device's available space the space occupied by the deleted files is shown as occupied." that seems true for mounted devices only, files in the home dir are moved to ~/.Trash/ -- 87.187.2.67 (talk) 11:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)