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nananana9today at 6:19 AM3 repliesview on HN

At 8 years I recycled filesystem directories. I didn't know you can create new folders, so when I needed one I grabbed a random one from C:\Windows, moved it to my desktop and deleted its contents.


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jdthediscipletoday at 6:25 AM

Makes total sense, it used to be called "Recycle Bin" after all!

energy123today at 8:42 AM

I deleted the files from there to free up disk space

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geoffbptoday at 6:34 AM

Worked ok til it was a system dir and the system wouldn’t boot anymore? :)