Deleting to Trash? is that a misleading message?

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YossiD
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Deleting to Trash? is that a misleading message?

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According to TC Help there is no recycle bin for deleted files, but when I perform a deletion I get a dialog that says: Deleting From: <path/filename> To Trash.

As I cannot find a Trash folder anywhere, I'm guessing that this is just a misleading message in the dialog.

Also, after deletion available storage increased so it looks like nothing was moved to "Trash."

Can someone clarify?
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What about looking into the Windows recycle bin
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Horst.Epp wrote:What about looking into the Windows recycle bin
There is no windows recycle bin on a android phone/tablet.
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To trash just means that they get deleted. They aren't put in a recycle bin because Android doesn't have that.
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Re: Deleting to Trash?

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I also found this nomenclature confusing. In the next update, perhaps this could be changed to "deleting to null" or "...dev/null" or "... to nonexistence". Because "Trash" is unfortunately an actual place in windows and mac. They should not have called it that, but they are bigger than we are.
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