Move to Deleted Items Folder

[Bobo-the-Cat]

Does anyone know exactly how this works? I have written a small script to securely delete stuff from the deleted items folder once it is already there. But if you right-click on a file and select the move option, is the file:-

1. Physically moved within the filesystem to the deleted items folder?
2. Physically copied within the filesystem to the deleted items folder?
3. Left in situ , but marked as deleted, so it appears only in the deleted folder and not in the normal directory listing?

In the first 2 cases - the file will presumably still exist in plain-text somewhere in the filesystem and the only way to delete it would be to overwrite all the free blocks in the filesystem?

I have already suggested in the suggestions part of the forum that we have new functionality to allow for the secure deletion of files and directories.

[Husse]

Case 3
Files are never touched - it's only the "file table" that is rewritten - goes for Linux and Windows and I guess Mac too

[Bobo-the-Cat]

I am not talking about the right-click and delete option here. So if I delete using the right-click and "Move to Deleted Items Folder" option, then I need to be sure that copies don't exist anywhere else on disk.

When this option is used, the files end up in the folder: ~/.local/share/Trash/files, and the question is whether an actual file move has taken place here, presuming that this folder is an
real folder (which it appears to be) and not a virtual one. Otherwise, how else do the files end up in this folder?