On 2013-07-17 12:14 (GMT-0400) Paul B. Gallagher composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
If it was up to me, delete would always mean delete rather than hide, regardless of context. Delete that increases disk consumption by even one bit is not deletion, it's a lie. Compaction would never be a separate menu item or process.
The point of doing it this way is to make undo possible. If all deletes were permanent and irrevocable, the system would be very unforgiving and not as user-friendly. I make enough mistakes that I prefer to spend a couple of MB on my terabyte drive for CYA.
Delete means cancel, expunge or eradicate. It's been around a very very long time. A hide operation that's reversible needs a different word that does not connote increase available free space. Current delete usage on a computer parallels misuse of megabyte/MB for 2^20 instead of its original and still current meaning 10^6.
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