Name: 刪除的照片去哪兒了？ (Where Do Deleted Photos Go?)
Uploaded: 2025-05-22T21:01:10.000Z
Duration: 2 min 16 s

So you delete a photo on your phone, poof, gone, right?

刪除手機上的照片，"噗 "的一聲就不見了，對嗎？

Just like with computers, when you delete something on your phone, it doesn't instantly vanish into the void.

就像在電腦上一樣，當你刪除手機上的東西時，它不會立即消失得無影無蹤，

Instead, it gets moved to a hidden folder, like a digital purgatory.

相反，它會被移動到一個隱藏的資料夾，就像一個數位煉獄。

If you've ever gone into your recently deleted album and restored something, congrats.

如果你曾經進入過最近刪除的相冊並恢復了某些內容，那麼恭喜你。

You just proved your phone is a terrible forgetter.

你剛剛證明了你的手機很容易忘記。

But even after you empty the trash, your phone isn't really erasing the file, it's just pretending it never existed.

但即使你清空了垃圾桶，你的手機也沒有真正刪除文件，只是假裝它從未存在過。

Your phone just deletes the reference to where it lives.

你的手機只是刪除了它所在位置的參考資訊。

The data itself is still chilling in your storage, invisible, but not really erased.

數據本身仍冷藏在你的存儲器中，看不見，但並沒有被真正刪除。

Just waiting to be overwritten by something new.

Think of your phone's storage like a giant book, every file is a chapter, and the file system is the table of contents.

把手機存儲空間想象成一本巨書，每個文件都是一個章節，文件系統就是目錄。

When you delete something, you're just erasing the chapter's entry from the index.

刪除某些內容時，只是從索引中刪除該章節的條目。

And until the book gets rewritten, that chapter can be recovered.

在這本書重寫之前，這一章可以恢復。

Because your phone doesn't immediately overwrite deleted data,

因為手機不會立即覆蓋已刪除的數據、

recovery apps, or, you know, digital forensics experts, can sometimes bring erased files back from the dead.

復原應用程式，或者數位取證專家，有時可以讓被刪除的文件起死回生。

丟失的照片就是這樣重新出現的。

But there's a catch. Once new data starts filling up your storage, the old files get replaced piece by piece.

但有一個問題，一旦新數據開始填滿你的存儲空間，舊文件就會被逐個替換。

If parts of a deleted file are overwritten, you're left with a corrupted mess.

如果已刪除文件的部分內容被覆蓋，就會出現損壞的混亂局面。

A Frankenstein file that's half your old selfie and half, who knows what.

一個科學怪人文件，一半是你以前的自拍照，一半是不知道是什麼的東西。

If you really want something gone for good, simply deleting it isn't enough.

如果你真的想讓某些東西永遠消失，僅僅刪除是不夠的。

That's where secure deletion apps come in.

這就是安全刪除應用程式的用武之地。

They don't just erase files. They overwrite them with random junk data, making recovery impossible.

它們不僅會刪除文件，還會用隨機垃圾數據覆蓋文件，使復原成為不可能。

Some ultra paranoid folks go even further, making sure data is overwritten multiple times.

有些極端偏執的人甚至會更進一步，確保數據被多次覆蓋。

But for most people, a single override does the job, especially on modern phones with advanced storage systems.

但對於大多數人來說，只需一次重寫就能完成任務，尤其是在擁有先進存儲系統的現代手機上。

Even with secure deletion, there's a small problem.

即使是安全刪除，也有一個小問題。

These are tiny areas of your phone's storage that become unusable over time.

這些都是手機存儲中的微小區域，隨著時間的推移會變得無法使用。

If a deleted file was stored in one of these bad sectors, parts of it could stick around forever.

如果被刪除的文件存儲在這些壞軌中，其中的部分內容可能會永遠存在。

就像數位幽靈在你的手機裡作祟？

Phones don't forget in the way we do, they just lose track of where things are.

手機不會像我們一樣健忘，它們只是不知道東西在哪裡。

At the end of the day, deleting stuff on your phone isn't as simple as it seems.

說到底，刪除手機上的東西並不像看起來那麼簡單。

If you really want something to disappear forever, you have to go the extra mile.

如果你真的想讓某些東西永遠消失，你就必須付出更多的努力。

Because in the world of tech, delete is mostly just an illusion.

因為在科技世界裡，刪除大多只是一種假象。