Where Do Deleted Files Go?
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sun: gotcha bruh
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“Where do deleted files go?”
*Eight minutes later*
“We surrender the fact that our species will eventually be DELETED from the universe”
Deleted things get archived
@A.S I guess we can say this conversation suddenly became more *down to earth*
Shine up smash
Let be me your sixth reply
Saint Warlock 😂
I hope this channel don't ever get deleated.
@@spectxre??
@@spectxrevery specific
No shot.
One day it will..
I used to work in IT security for a large company and another method used to wipe data from drives was degaussing. This was where an electromagnetic pulse was used to demagnetise the hard drive or tape, effectively wiping the data. Even this wasn't considered completely secure however and was usually just the first stage of the destruction process, with the degaussed drives then being shredded anyway.
The disposal company we used could shred drives so the resulting scraps were only 2mm thick. This still doesn't technically mean that the data still couldn't be retrieved but even those enterprising people in Ghana would have a hard time extracting anything of value from those scraps.
Of course, the less sexy but more practical method of data security was just to have a strict policy of forbidding any data containing customer or payment information to be stored locally on employee PCs, drastically reducing the amount of physical storage equipment that actually held sensitive data. I'll get in contact with my former colleagues and let them know that the heat death of the universe is also an effective method of data security.
I wasn't prepared to have an existential crisis, I just wanted to know where deleted files go.
😂😂😂same
Lmao
That's vsauce
FIrst things first, let's turn the sun into a blackhole.
when he mentioned gana i tought that is the point, but in 10^100 years there wont be any usable energy left..thats tuff
I clicked on this video to pass the time, not to have an existential crisis.
It's still pretty cool regardless of how he makes us feel. His content needs to be stored somewhere
you must be new her
+1
I'm not even kidding I finally felt how NateIsLame when he experienced existential crisis. What I just experienced was the worst 5 minutes of my life. I don't want to die. I can't believe Micheal just let me feel like that. We are so small.
Welcome to Vsauce, is this your first time?
Michael, you madman. You had so many chances to end this video on a mindblowing note, but you just kept kickin' up more vibes.
Even after a decade of release, these videos still looks more informative than today's....
"dad where do deleted files go"
*_"...Our sun becomes a red giant and swallows the Earth whole"_*
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@GachaTube • 65 years ago Its been 2 days it aint
"wait will I become a red giant"
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Good catch. It took me couple of times re-watching this to realise how crazy' he went from deleted files to heat death lol
I wanted to know where deleted files go not how the universe will end
He gave you the answer , the deleted file does not disappear it stays in the sector it was placed unless new data takes its place by overwriting. 1011 -> 0000-> 1101(if that makes sense)
+Primus it was a joke
But using burning as the standard way of "getting rid of something" will produce extra CO2 and destroy our atmosphere
Aditya B up
What Happens, Is... It Goes To A Program Called a "Recycling Bin" But If You Delete It There... Well, I Have No Idea
”Every time something happens, a little energy is lost” Energy doesn’t get lost at any point, it just changes its form according to the first law of thermodynamics.
Of course, and thank you for extra info. However, i think he meant that a fraction of the energy used for the action, is discarded away from its original and intended purpose. The energy being used for its purpose "looses" a part of itself, which becomes just energy.
Well yes, though energy is conserved, because of the gradual expansion of the universe eventually everything will reach a point where it cannot be heated or cooled anymore, or there will reach a point when the only energy is heat, at a quite diminished amount
hold on. wtf?!
He said that lost energy goes to the universe😑
The energy concentration decrease.... which in turn increases the entropy of the universe....
I love how he gives us hope in "But we got to the moon" and then instantly takes it
Q: Where do deleted files go?
A: *The end of the universe is inevitable*
I wish it were evitable...
😂
This was definitely a "Well that escalated quickly" video lol
I wish it was edible...
That's a cute Fumino pfp
Well, this got dark quickly...
+Hi, I'm 428 heat death joke.
Best Comment Award.
#unintendedjokes
+Hi, I'm 428 Actually, it took quite a while.
+Hi, I'm 428 Surprisingly lame ending for Vsauce. Would've been lot cooler if he ended with ' information never vanishes', or something.
+Hi, I'm 428 yup, sure did.
Such a good script. The twists and turns... and in the end it turns out we were going steadily forward the whole time.
Vsauce: Talking about what happens with deleted files
Also Vsauce minutes later: Talks about the heath death of the universe
Q: Where do deleted files go?
A: *When Stalin decided that Trosky was the enemy of the state,*
*in a very far future all stars will die*
*put there, stays there*
*They go to universe*
He got deleted by a pickaxe
@@Fandestdh some theorys to stop or delay entropy
He went from "deleting files" to the sun exploding
Shit got real...
yeah he deviates from his topic so easily like a little child
Well, consider it a multi-topic learning experience courtesy of Vsauce :D
COME AT ME BRO Nah. There is a method to his madness. His writing and presentations are erudite and poetic, never discursive. Who else would use the sun's expansion as the ultimate deletion?
David Adams vsause would
I wish every teacher was as passionate and good at teaching as you! Amazing video!
That was beautiful... The transitions. Especially the ending dialogue.
So basically, if you want to get rid of something paper, you should shred it, then burn it, then eat it, shit it out, burn it again, bury it several thousand miles underground and then throw the Earth into the sun and be happy that your Club Penguin password is safe.
basically yea.
Riothebeast Great! Give me a few minutes, I need to make my Club Penguin password safe again.
Down2Diamonds xD
+Down2Diamonds be sure to remember it before you do it :')
exactly.
Me: Deletes a file
Other Files: *It's free real estate*
This is so underrated
I was going to say that.
Well memed good sir
Sheridan Batt I made it 500 likes
Ellie M
I just imagined someone spilling cornflakes and yelling-
"OH NO MY CORNFLAKES!" in a southern accent XD
This went from how to delete files to physics to the heat death to entropy to the secret to life and finnally michael asking rather philosophical questions. Early 2010s michael was wild.
and early 2020s Mike is losing his mind 😅
In the last few seconds of the video, the way in which he changed the perspective of the video, from a video which makes us question our existence & gives us existential crisis to giving us hope is incredible!!
2013 doesn't seem that long ago, but 7 years seems like a very long time.
Or is it? Is time just an illusion in our brains?
@@greengoblin5488 yes
yeah same feel
For me it’s the other way around
For me, 100 years feels much more recent than 1921
The kid who’s Minecraft world got erased needs to see this
this one needs more upvotes.
EDIT: I came back 7 months after posting this, seeing people lose their marbles over these five words. :'D Honest mistake leads to controversy and people grabbing popcorn. I love the internet.
@@BartTheBardOfficial We call them "Likes" here.
@@phillippeng1368 OOPS!
And then the world gets corrupted. And he's either not smart enough or too sad to delete the world file. And now, all that he can do is stare at his Minecraft world and wonder what could've been.
tell them to restore the previous version, or go to recycle binm to recover. The world won't be as progresed, but it will likely b recovered
this was one of my most curious question that no nobody was able to give me a proper explanation. Thanks Michieal!!
The photography bit is wonderful. Kudos to the artist for embracing the product
13 yr old me: how to permanently delete history
Vsauce: One day the world will be devoured by the sun
Me:ok
Use incognito, smh...
@@itay3013 nah, even that doesn't save you. There is no such thing as true privacy on the internet
@@jackiejolie2748 who cares what a random on the internet or your service provider sees, it's more important people you know won't see it.
@@itay3013 True
@@itay3013 exactly. Your ISP and government cant *legally* track and share what you are doing on the internet. So really, they would be in more trouble from sharing your info than you would for having that info in the first place.
Old file: *gets deleted*
New file: "It's free real estate"
Best use of this meme
XD
Teach me how to cook.
I seen you a few months ago I just don't know where
Edit:did you change your profile because now I have no memory of you
Finally found the comment. My day is complete
still one of my favorite vsauce vids... i come back every few years and watch it again
Shivers.
Every episode, shivers. Thank you, all ways, and always
How did we go from deleting files to the end of the universe in 10 minutes
ikr
vsauce.
Well that escalated quickly
ikr
actually more like 6:45
This man could sell trees to a forest.
I can sell food to a food store
@@hotrod694 well I mean they would be need to get the food from somewhere
Sell cars to car showrooms
@@kathacentauri5943 sell cars to a car factory
@@hotrod694 or maybe sell resources to earth?
remind me to not watch a vsauce video for more than 5 minutes.
Oke don’t watch a vsauce video for more than 5 minutes
man this channel is legit intresting it just makes u think of everything of the things that u have never thought of ..
On this episode, we had:
- Files
- Stalin
- Department of Defense
- Programs
- Sun
- *_EXISTENTIAL CRISIS_*
Deletion is indeed that complicated
Classic vsauce episode
@@XariksBeatbox Or is it?
I gotta burn my hard drives....
@@Abdo-vo1gb *mystery music intensifies*
lol at how every vsauce video has to go back to like the sun exploding or something by the end
ikr
Lol the Irony right Mr. Galaxy Goat lol
because the sun is the source of all things on earth
lol
+Eduardo Cruz you'r write bro
Summary : Don't watch the video and just destroy your disk drive, burn it,look at it when it is melting ,be happy inside ,and finally smile 🙂
That ending is so good, man. I love this stuff so much.
Trash can: Empty.
Computer files: *IT'S FREE REAL ESTATE*
It's free real estate
In a decade no one will UNDERSTAND your comment LOL
@@Ariestotolz you will, I will.
@@nekozombie My wife won't. I whispered it to her earlier this evening in response to some trivial thing... She didn't get it and became quite upset.
ulol lololol i will
Vsauce: deleted files don’t go away.
Me: *sweating intensifies*
just fill your hard drive with anything
@GreenMicrowave FBI OPEN UP
@GreenMicrowave Jokes on you, I only watch the legal ones!
ay that's my name :D
569 likes ;)
It was beautiful. Thank you Michael❤
You just you took all the stress off me and change the way that i think😅, there's nothing to really worry that much about, at the end, there just be a lost memory that only i could possibly appreciate correctly
Is it just me or does v sauce just love talking about how we will all die.
It's vsauce why are you surprised
Vsauce is just science language for everything about our universe
Mood
"I have decided, I want to die"
and i love to talk about how roblox dies
my brother once tried to read my diary so I ate the pages....I think that deleted them
***** thirsty
***** still thirsty
***** young kid?
a sophisticated cat he's desperate.
weed cat lol.
this man always MAKE me have an existential crisis, and MAKE me FORGET about it in less than 10 minutes, incredible.
This person really feels like someone you could have hours of quality talks
Destroying the universe should delete your files
maybe
not completely sure
Kendama o crap forgot about that
But what if it doesn't delete them? What if future hackers from beyond the universe can deduce the location of the particles of the universe from our time through their current trajectories positions to recreate our universe at our time, and, from their, recover our lost files?
You can't say it can't happen. For all we know, what we think of as time is just another spacial dimension for someone else. They can just walk over to our time period and take all our files regardless of whether we delete them or not. We're screwed.
Life Hacks by Knurft Most easy way to delete porn
Lol
Such a good video, the music too is rly cool
Great video! highly recommend this to people all around the internet!
This video in a nutshell
1) Cyber security stress
2) Security Stress
3) Existential Crisis
4) Motivation video
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I wanted to recover my files, not have an existential crisis.
Lmaooo
Same
LMFAO
TheFancySquid97 -
You're welcome
That profile picture is familiar
This was way more philosophical than I was expecting. Great video.
god this has not aged _at all_
you could tell me this was made 2 weeks ago and i would believe you
Vsauce's special ability:
No matter what the topic is, its always related with da end of the universe.
Yea
Title: why are blackboards green?
Video: the inevitable death of the sun
@@RafaelMunizYTHe just said it just now.
@@judicatorhurayth1927 he made a video about blackboards?
@@RafaelMunizYT LMAO
How to completely delete files?
Wait for the universe to end
I knew that vsauce would help me make sure my mom couldn't find my porn files
Finally a proper way to delete all my porn files
u cant even u droped ur hard drive from 10000km to grond
it steals for ever 8
ExplodingGarbage
That is only a temporary solution
burn it melt it grind it
When the Vsauce music plays twice, you know it will be a great video.
I learned this by trying to recover the files, they simply get piled up still taking memory space until the system decides to rewrites the slot they were taking.
So this made it almost impossible to recover deleted files from Drives that I use quite often, since using a drive requires usage of memory, writing/deleting data on top of where the files were.
Deleting the file is just removing the file path. From a system point of view that makes lot of sense. Very few people would be willing to wait minutes until shred finishes 3 overwrites. This agresssive destruction will degrade the harddisk (+3 write cycles on those blocks).
Just marking the blocks as available and overwrite them on demand adds just 1 write cycle
I think Vsauce is able to teach me more in 10 minutes, than a teacher at school can teach me in a week.
True that.
Yeah! Amen! Replace school lessons with Vsauce's videos!
Nymph Angeloid exactly
Amen
yep
Where do deleted files go
Vsauce: lets talk about Stalin and Trotsky
The Hoppy and then we’ll talk about the end of the universe as we know it....
@@Pixeling63 yay
Trotskii, ain't it?
Samridh Sharma no trotsky
@@kylehopkins7841 Our History book taught us leader of Revolutionary Military Committee was Leon *Trotskii* ... Huh?
Michael can make a 10 minute video feel like a lifetime of knowledge and thinking
Thank you for making things, Michael
This man makes 10 minutes feel like a 2 hours in a good way
I feel the opposite, lol
@@coompiler9029 me too
True
I think because he has too much information to offer to us in a single video, it takes time to process the information atleast for me
cuz Vsauce
From an interesting video to a funny video to a horror video and in the end, to a motivational and opened-my-eyes video
9:02 Damn, I guess the moon is owned by France now...
“how to delete files permanently”
Answer: Incinerate it along with the earth using the sun’s fiery wrath
*THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER*
@@captainchickenmcnugget2365 bill wurtz reference
@@captainchickenmcnugget2365
≈≈ Hold on there's a blanket ≈≈
Vsauce.
The file still exist even though you incinerate it.
Why does it always end with everybody dying
JENEMBA Because that's reality
Because that's how it most likely will end.
JENEMBA Because that’s the most pleasant end to the universe. I like it too
If they didn't, it wouldn't be the end. :P
Kombi no but im gay tho
I can watch same Vsauce video 100th time after years with same astonishing and still be Surprised everytime!
ten years...
"Where do deleted files go?"
"well you see, the universe is slowly disintegrating and we're all gonna die and everything you've ever loved will be shrouded in darkness for trillions of years"
> every thing you loved
Now that is important to me
“Wait that’s not good right?”
I love you the way you think, champ!
@@bottleoflight.4540 *WRONG*
Trillions of years is a massive understatement.
It would take
10 ^ 1 with 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 zeros afterwards amount of years for a new universe to be born.
Do you.... do you think VSauce lures innocent victims to his channel to continue his fetish of causing existential crises in everyone?
Alex Kendrick yea
What would that type of porn be like? Would there even be sex? HAH sexistensial crisis.
Alex Kendrick LOL
Alex Kendrick ... u know what fuck it I'm robbing a bank see you in jail
Alex Kendrick cause it's not gonna matter any way humans are to occupied with war and other shit but hey we still have 3 things in common 1 were human doesn't matter black white Chinese or exc were human 2 earth we all have earth and if it wasn't for this beautiful hunk of rock we would exist (I mean yea God to but mean made Erath and you know what I mean) we need earth yet humans are killing it at a faster rate than when the sun is gonna kill us and 3 we live and die / we make mistakes and learn from them but we humans arnt learning jack shit we fight after how many years were still killing earth even tho she/earth provides other options we've been making the same mistake over to many years and we're not learning from them we keep doing it but when earth gives up we will realize our mistakes and think we're we the right life that god choose to put on this planet or were we just a virus harming something that was helping us we need to stop what we're doing and think about what's more important us or our future
I love how this start as fun facts and explanation about deleted files but slowly becomes depressing and philosophical.
Dude is making me scared and seriously anxious about an event that is 10^100 years away, a figure so big that I can't even begin to comprehend how far away in future that is.
Q:Deleting?
A: Everything will be forgotten, live is meaningless.
Live is meaningless Live is meanlessing
wrong ? czcams.com/video/HDX8BE2Pje8/video.html
@@NeoCrypt01 You either didn't watch the video or did not understand it, or even better... don't want to understand it. Life is indeed meaningless, nothing changes that currently. Theoretically only a life that is immortal is not meaningless, but even that is probably meaningless alone. Ppl just like trying to give sense to something that is nonsense. Your video is just a perfect example for that... Your life is equal with the life of maximum 6 animals that live for 15 years. That's how meaningful your existence is. Fighting for your life is just natural, because deep down we all know that nonexistence before we born, not to mention the actual pain of dying so you can be nonexistent again. Everything will be forgotten, first try to understand that sentence.
Looks like i belong there
Errors are red,
My screen is blue.
I think i deleted
System 32.
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For nearly 10 years I've loved the example set by "To Adrian Rodriguez, with love"
Due to its embracing of the concepts of renewal and forgiveness, sacrifice and loss, wounds and the healing that time brings them.
Her hard work was stolen and corrupted by one man, but her Art would not exist the way that it does without the thief and his influence on her life.
Thank you Adrian.
ten years later and we still have energy
“Deleted files don’t go away”
_fire has entered the chat_
paper can be reclaimed even after burnt
It can be claimed but the person is gonna be claiming a pile of ash
_blackhole entered the chat_
@@prfm_setya95 the force of a black hole is finite, so it can be grabbed back with a higher force.
Yousef Tobail
No, not even light can escape
Came here to learn about files.
Ended up having a existential crisis
when reality hits you like a truck
Bad luck brian
Thanks bro. Me too.
Im too late here... but thanks for the info.
I thought Deleted files can eat your storage after time, But yes theyres still theres waiting to be Overwritten
Yeah
@@gabrielesallemi787 i'm the same with you guys tbh
This guy can literally answer my random childhood thoughts like whst is meant to be deleted
I just realized how my father and michael looks so similar
0:04
lol
plot twist: michael is your dad
@@replicate4684 I R O N I C
Maybe michael is your dad
It took me too long to understand that
It can't be a vsauce video without him talking about the end of the earth at the end.
Or without that music at the start.
lol
hey vsauce were all gonna die here :D
The not so Smooth criminal so true
*Or is it?*
When I deleted files from my Kindle and connected it to my pc, I checked the data and there was a part of the deleted file this man single-handedly, saved me from years of confusion Thank you Vsause
I gotta say, this guy was wayyyy ahead of his time. This is July 2023 and I'm listening to him like anything.
So deleted files don't go away?
Hehe... My Search History is somewhere out there polluting the web
Oi! Here before diz getz famouz!
Oh you again
@Just Some Guy without a Mustache
JuSt How MuCh CZcams do you watch
Shut up
😂😂😂
Do you take this woman to be your lovely wedded wife forever?
Vsauce:I do.....or do I
*vsauce music plays*
V1RAL SpAdes vsauce: You see, a marriage paper is simply tree skin with ink written on it... so are you actually... annulled? In recent studies... etc etc etc
Yung Steezy yeah facts. He goes into straight detail about everything😂
V1RAL SpAdes 😂 yeah he gets all deep about the simplest things but it’s so interesting
But the inevitability of heat death..
But really, What IS forever?
Now I can let go of my anxiety about backing up my data! I'll honor my memories by making more!
I never thought about this but i am getting intrigued
why did this video turn so dark....
delete
not dark, deep
I Live ^
welcome to vsauce
*plays upbeat cymbal music*
You know how you completely delete a file? Take your PC, drop it into a volcano. Done
+Zombie Chicken An active volcano of course
Blu Gold
K........
Zombie Chicken Not being rude if she is... :3
Blu Gold she weighs less than me
Zombie Chicken Okay, that would be normal, depending on age.
"Damn. How could we have ever rendered this paper into unreadable pieces?"
"Have you ever heard of fire, my dude?"
vsauce is the reason why i want to continue living
Hey, Vsauce, Michael here. But now, i'm not.
Illuminati: Stay right where you are
Aidan Holland music kicks on
BOOMM
Why is the fbi here
Aidan Holland ww2
FBI: Why is Michael Stevens here?
Legend say they still looking for Micheal
I swear I just wanted to know where deleted files go, now I'm depressed.
fr 😂😂
Welcome to Vsauce
But it was mentioned in the video. Did you not watch it?
sable no because i was having a existential crisis
@@Sike1921 hahaha
I didn’t know video quality & editing was this good back in 2013 😮
That's why he has the subscribers he has today. He invested in the best tech to make high-quality content, back when finding such quality was much rarer in CZcams indeed.
Beginning of the video: What happens if you delete a file?
End of the video: We surrender to the inevitability of entropy.
“Marked as a donation”
Bruh wtf
Hey, I wouldn't complain if I got access to multi-million dollars worth of PC's and documents for free.
Buccarado you sure as hell would mind if you had no way of using it and it was literally just trashing up the environment you live in.
@@aeroscience9834 wasn't talking about the environment now was I?
Buccarado ?
@@aeroscience9834 you seriously can't understand what I said?
Hearing about 90% of silent films being deleted hurt me.
Intergalactic Human Empire 90% percent of them were just workers getting out of work, people at the beach...
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Jeff Cooper
Nice gif profile pic
Silvio Haro But that still is interesting to see, look at footage from the 60s and 70s and notice how different things are.
Intergalactic Human Empire
Eh, don't worry. More than likely even the people who made those lost movies either didn't care, or they weren't good movies. And if they were good, we more than likely couldn't watch them today, anyways.