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human
Where do files, pics, etc. go once they get deleted?

I remember someone telling me about cyberspace once but I don't really know much about it, or whether or not it has anything to do with deleted files.
gpt
your files don't go anywhere.  you just forget where you put them.

whenever you want to draw a picture of a cat with your crayons.  you just take a picture and draw.  when you are done you throw it away, but you can take a new piece of paper and draw again.  You'll always have paper to draw on (your parents will get it for you), and you just throw the old paper in the trash.

but a computer can't get its paper from its parents.  it doesn't have any parents.  instead it has a certain amount of memory to use and draw or write on, like drawing on the bedroom walls.  It can draw all over those walls, and it always remembers where each picture is (the cat is below the light switch, the dog is behind the bed, the house is next to your trash can).  But if it wants to get rid of something and start over new, it can't just tear out the wall.  instead it just forgets where it put that particular picture.  so it thinks the wall is empty.

so it forgets that the cat picture is under the light switch, and the cat picture is deleted.  the computer thinks the spot is empty, and the cat is gone, But technically, the cat picture is still there, where we left it.  some times you can do special stuff to get the computer to remember where that picture is, but it might be difficult depending on how it was deleted.

that deleted picture will stay on the wall until you ask the computer to write something new, like a picture of your goldfish.  The computer thinks the spot under the light switch is empty, so it goes to draw the goldfish there.  first it applies a layer of white paint, and then it draws the fish.  now the cat picture is truly gone, and only goldie remains.