recycle bin

[bash]

I have 2 .tmp files, one of which is over 1 gig, the
other 800 meg. They and 2 other files ( which I
successfully deleted from the recycle bin, and my system
is still working) were created back in Feb 2002, and
have not been accessed since then.
Because of the size of these tmp files I cannot back them
up. I feel pretty sure that they are junk, and they are
sitting in my recycle bin.
If the computer cannot access the recycle bin and my
computer has been working without them then I would feel
safe doing a final delete, but if it turns out that the
computer is still able to access them then I'm assuming
that my system could still mess up when I do a final
delete.

My question is when a file is in the recycle bin, can it
be accessed by the computer if there is linked data that
another file needs to operate properly?

[David Candy]

Yes it can. However files moved to recycled are renamed so if something =
is using it and doesn't know it's new name it can't find it again.

However Can doesn't mean Will. It generally safe with files.
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