When's the last time you emptied the recycling bin on your PC? If the answer is right this second because you got self-conscious, then you're not alone. However, if you haven't waited nearly a decade to do so, you aren't quite as bad as one Redditor.
As user Illuminated Autocrat shared on Reddit, they just deleted 557,459 files from their recycling bin because they forgot to clear it out for almost a decade. That makes for 302 GB total, or 0.5 MB per file. They reportedly upgraded from 500 GB to 4 TB of storage over the years, "so the bin grew with it". They add, "free storage upgrade, I guess."
If you're wondering how exactly they took all that rubbish data with them, the user reportedly copied the entire SSD in a disk cloning station, so they never had to reset or wipe the storage since getting it. They also never seemed to realise how much data they couldn't account for on their rig.
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