"They're checking trash folders, Donald."
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It was revealed that a recording of the damning 6-minute phone call between Trump and Georgian election official Frances Watson published recently by The WSJ was believed not to exist, and was recently located in Watson's "trash" folder.
They're checking trash folders, Donald.
9:29 AM · Mar 13, 2021
I wanna know who put it in the trash folder, trying to destroy evidence.
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And was it expensive?
Asking for a friend.
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Old one from Boris Badenov. Seemed to fit here 
...or in my case (now) the Recycle Bin folder.
I'm the kind of person that for years has built my PCs, set them up so they're stable & running as efficiently as I can make them, & then kept them in that fixed, reliable state. That comes from too many experiences in the "early days" where an upgrade left me with a PC that wouldn't boot, especially when I set my machines up as dual-boot, so I could boot into 2 different environments, loading different sets of drivers & running different software in each environment.
Anyway, a couple years ago I finally retired my old Win XP SP3 PC (which still runs like a champ today) & upgraded to a new PC with Win 10. As part of the upgrade I copied all files onto the new PC, then went through a cleanup process of organizing old files into archival folders, then moving all the archive files, my audio audio/music library, & years of pics/graphics files onto my network server. Of course in the process of moving those files they were "deleted" from my PC. I didn't think much about it until about a year later when I happened to look at my Recycle Bin folder & saw over 39,000 files in it, taking up I forget how many gigs of space! I LOLd.
I was old school. I was the old guy saying "When I was a kid, when you deleted a file it got deleted, & if you wanted it back you had to use an "undelete" utility, & hope the file hadn't been written over, & manually fill in the first few letters of the filename, & you had to do it barefoot, in the snow, uphill, both ways."
Deleted data can be retrieved from a hard drive.
Simply deleting a file - even bypassing the Windows recycle Bin - still leaves the raw data on the hard drive - only the pointers that tell were the data is located on the disk are deleted in that case.
Secure data deletion programs will actually write all '0000's' to the disk, thus actually overwriting the raw data.
Caveat is that one pass will most likely allow sensitive (and expensive) tools to dig deeper into the magnetic stripes and read what data is hidden under the '0000's'. To really delete all data, and lower the magnetic field strength of the old data low enough so the most sensitive tool cannot read it, several passes - I think 7 or more - of writing all '0000's' are required. On large drives this process can take hours if not days.
