Hi all,
My friend has a Samsung tablet with Android 11. We want to empty the
recycle bin, but I can't find it. How can I find it?
Thanks in advance for your help.
With best regards,
Fokke Nauta
My friend has a Samsung tablet with Android 11. We want to empty the
recycle bin, but I can't find it. How can I find it?
My friend has a Samsung tablet with Android 11. We want to empty the
recycle bin, but I can't find it. How can I find it?
There's a recycle bin on Android? o-:
On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:01:41 +0100, Fokke Nauta wrote:
My friend has a Samsung tablet with Android 11. We want to empty the recycle bin, but I can't find it. How can I find it?
There's a recycle bin on Android? o-:
Yes, but it's called 'the Trash'. And like on Windows, it's a per-app function.
On 29.11.25 14:26, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Yes, but it's called 'the Trash'. And like on Windows, it's a per-app function.
That is exactly what I wrote already two days ago.
"s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote or quoted:
There's a recycle bin on Android? o-:
Yeah, I was wondering about that too! I knew some file managers have
their own trash bins, so I figured the OP either uses one of those
or maybe some Android version I haven't heard of that includes one.
s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
There's a recycle bin on Android? o-:
Yes, but it's called 'the Trash'. And like on Windows, it's a per-app function. (I don't know which 'apps' other than (Windows) File Explorer
use the Recycle Bin.)
An advantage of the Android-type Trash is that it is timed, typically
for 30 days, so after an item is deleted, it will be kept for 30 days.
So my Windows Recycle Bin is nearly always empty, because I don't like cruft, but my Android Trash cans just empty themselves.
(And yes, I of course saw and noted the smiley.)
On 29 Nov 2025 13:26:32 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
There's a recycle bin on Android? o-:
Yes, but it's called 'the Trash'. And like on Windows, it's a per-app function. (I don't know which 'apps' other than (Windows) File Explorer
use the Recycle Bin.)
An advantage of the Android-type Trash is that it is timed, typically
for 30 days, so after an item is deleted, it will be kept for 30 days.
Do you know if one can change 30 days to something else?
--- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2So my Windows Recycle Bin is nearly always empty, because I don't like cruft, but my Android Trash cans just empty themselves.
I use Total Commander and delete them by hand. (I blame OCD.)
(And yes, I of course saw and noted the smiley.)
(-:
s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:On my Motorola G pure cellphone, in the Settings, I can see the and
On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:01:41 +0100, Fokke Nauta wrote:
My friend has a Samsung tablet with Android 11. We want to empty the
recycle bin, but I can't find it. How can I find it?
There's a recycle bin on Android? o-:
Yes, but it's called 'the Trash'. And like on Windows, it's a per-app function. (I don't know which 'apps' other than (Windows) File Explorer
use the Recycle Bin.)
An advantage of the Android-type Trash is that it is timed, typically
for 30 days, so after an item is deleted, it will be kept for 30 days.
So my Windows Recycle Bin is nearly always empty, because I don't like cruft, but my Android Trash cans just empty themselves.
(And yes, I of course saw and noted the smiley.)
my Samsung (Android 16) phone, its (photo/video)
'Gallery' app, it's fixed at 30 days. For the (Samsung) Messages app it
was also 30 days, but now it's the Google 'Messages' and that only seems
to have a permanent delete. The (Samsung) file manager 'My Files' has a
30 day 'Trash'.
BTW, apparently the (Samsung) Gallery and (Samsung) My Files apps
share the same Trash can, because in the My Files Trash, I see the same
files (photos) which are also shown in the Gallery Trash.
The trash feature has saved me several times over the years. Especially when
I get pissed and delete something and then later have a change of heart.
Like Usenet? Nah... 8-O
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
[...]
The trash feature has saved me several times over the years. Especially when >> I get pissed and delete something and then later have a change of heart.
Like Usenet? Nah... 8-O
You *do* realise that this group also has some UK English speaking
audience, don't you!? :-)
My friend has a Samsung tablet with Android 11. We want to empty the
recycle bin, but I can't find it. How can I find it?
My friend has a Samsung tablet with Android 11. We want to empty the
recycle bin, but I can't find it. How can I find it?
There is no "recycle bin" in Android. Only individual apps, like file managers or picture galleries may have such a thing, but that depends on
the app.
On 11/29/25 12:44 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
[...]
The trash feature has saved me several times over the years. Especially when
I get pissed and delete something and then later have a change of heart. >> Like Usenet? Nah... 8-O
You *do* realise that this group also has some UK English speaking
audience, don't you!? :-)
Sorry, don't understand. Did I say something different in UK English? Clue
me in...
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
On 11/29/25 12:44 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
[...]
The trash feature has saved me several times over the years. Especially when
I get pissed and delete something and then later have a change of heart. >> >> Like Usenet? Nah... 8-O
You *do* realise that this group also has some UK English speaking
audience, don't you!? :-)
Sorry, don't understand. Did I say something different in UK English? Clue >> me in...
"when I get pissed..." -> "when I get very drunk..."
On 11/30/25 3:52 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
On 11/29/25 12:44 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
[...]
The trash feature has saved me several times over the years.
Especially when I get pissed and delete something and then later
have a change of heart.
Like Usenet? Nah... 8-O
You *do* realise that this group also has some UK English speaking
audience, don't you!? :-)
Sorry, don't understand. Did I say something different in UK English? Clue >> me in...
"when I get pissed..." -> "when I get very drunk..."
Ah. Didn't know that. Thanks. Ok, for the UK English folks out there when I
say I got pissed I meant I got mad. I actually shortened it from its proper
term of pissed off. That might have helped the confusion? Anyway I'll try
not to dick around next time. Gee I hope the word dick doesn't confuse
things... 8-O
On my Motorola G pure cellphone, in the Settings, I can see the and
delete the amount of data in documents, images, apps, and trash. If I
click Trash, and delete all of part.
"In UK English, "pissed" means very drunk. To convey the meaning of
being angry, British speakers say "pissed off". "
Disclaimer: English is not my native language and Google's AI might be wrong.
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
On 11/30/25 3:52 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
On 11/29/25 12:44 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
[...]
The trash feature has saved me several times over the years.
Especially when I get pissed and delete something and then later
have a change of heart.
Like Usenet? Nah... 8-O
You *do* realise that this group also has some UK English speaking
audience, don't you!? :-)
Sorry, don't understand. Did I say something different in UK English? Clue
me in...
"when I get pissed..." -> "when I get very drunk..."
Ah. Didn't know that. Thanks. Ok, for the UK English folks out there when I >> say I got pissed I meant I got mad. I actually shortened it from its proper >> term of pissed off. That might have helped the confusion? Anyway I'll try >> not to dick around next time. Gee I hope the word dick doesn't confuse
things... 8-O
The UK English folks *do* use "pissed off", with the same meaning as
yours, but without the " off" part, the difference is as I described.
This is what the Google 'AI Overview' for a "pissed in UK English"
search says:
"In UK English, "pissed" means very drunk. To convey the meaning of
being angry, British speakers say "pissed off". "
Disclaimer: English is not my native language and Google's AI might be
wrong.
"when I get pissed..." -> "when I get very drunk..."
I don't speak anything but English but I understand it's one of the hardest
languages to learn.
On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 16:44:32 -0000 (UTC), AJL wrote:
I don't speak anything but English but I understand it's one of the hardest
languages to learn.
I've been told the same is being said about Dutch.
We say "Dutch isn't a language, it's a throat disease!"
But it's dead easy, even small children speak it! :-)
On 12/1/25 6:31 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
On 11/30/25 3:52 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
On 11/29/25 12:44 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote: [...]
The trash feature has saved me several times over the
years. Especially when I get pissed and delete something
and then later have a change of heart. Like Usenet?
Nah... 8-O
You *do* realise that this group also has some UK English
speaking audience, don't you!? :-)
Sorry, don't understand. Did I say something different
in UK English? Clue me in...
"when I get pissed..." -> "when I get very drunk..."
Ah. Didn't know that. Thanks. Ok, for the UK English folks out
there when I say I got pissed I meant I got mad. I actually
shortened it from its proper term of pissed off. That might have
helped the confusion? Anyway I'll try not to dick around next
time. Gee I hope the word dick doesn't confuse things... 8-O
The UK English folks *do* use "pissed off", with the same meaning
as yours, but without the " off" part, the difference is as I
described.
This is what the Google 'AI Overview' for a "pissed in UK
English" search says:
"In UK English, "pissed" means very drunk. To convey the meaning
of being angry, British speakers say "pissed off". "
Disclaimer: English is not my native language and Google's AI
might be wrong.
I don't speak anything but English but I understand it's one of the
hardest languages to learn. I have enough problems with it myself so
I admire those of you that can speak it as a second language. I
suppose the word piss (urinate), pissed (drunk or mad per Oxford),
or pissed off (mad) is an example of it's complications.
Anyway I now return this group to its regularly scheduled agenda...
I do not find English particularly difficult. German is worse.
There are no declinations, no verbal forms, aside from the "s" on
"he/she". Correct spelling is a bitch, though: we have to learn by heart both the spelling and the pronunciation of each word. They never
bothered to try to teach us the rules.
Yes, there are nuances as the same word having several different
meaning. You can never learn it perfectly, there are subtle meaning that
are really cultural.
Still, it is a very viable language for international exchange.
I tried
to learn French as an adult, did not manage that well.
On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 13:10:15 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
I do not find English particularly difficult. German is worse.
I agree and my native language, Dutch, is related to German. I studied
German for 2 years and it was a PITA.
There are no declinations, no verbal forms, aside from the "s" on
"he/she". Correct spelling is a bitch, though: we have to learn by heart
both the spelling and the pronunciation of each word. They never
bothered to try to teach us the rules.
Well, there's rules and then there's exception from the rules.
Yes, there are nuances as the same word having several different
meaning. You can never learn it perfectly, there are subtle meaning that
are really cultural.
Still, it is a very viable language for international exchange.
That's what all Germans think. (-;
I tried
to learn French as an adult, did not manage that well.
We had to learn French from the age of 12 and then another 6 years. IMHO
it's easier than German.
On 2025-12-02 14:53, s|b wrote:
We had to learn French from the age of 12 and then another 6 years. IMHO >>it's easier than German.It is easier at that age.
On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 13:10:15 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
I do not find English particularly difficult. German is worse.
I agree and my native language, Dutch, is related to German. I studied
German for 2 years and it was a PITA.
Carlos E.R. wrote:I heard that unless you grow up as a child in a Dutch speaking
I do not find English particularly difficult. German is worse.
I agree and my native language, Dutch, is related to German. I studied
German for 2 years and it was a PITA.
I tend to disagree. Basic English is easy to learn but a sophisticated
let's say Shakespearian English is quite different.
The real challenge for speakers of Germanic based languages are the
Latin languages.
Let me tell you that as someone living in a country with four languages.
Bonne soirée!
I heard that unless you grow up as a child in a Dutch speaking
household, you may well learn the language, but will never get the
phonetics right?
"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote or quoted:
On 2025-12-02 14:53, s|b wrote:
We had to learn French from the age of 12 and then another 6 years. IMHO >>> it's easier than German.It is easier at that age.
I'm a late self-taught learner of French myself. I can
understand simple texts with no special vocabulary, but
can't speak nor write myself.
The "equal complexity hypothesis" claims that, in the end, all
language have the same complexity. One language might have fewer
word forms but makes up for this by a more complex grammar etc.
Measured by the number of hours of instruction required
to bring native English speakers to a certain level of
proficiency, the simplest languages are French (indeed!),
Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Haitian Creole, Italian, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.
German is in the next, more difficult, group together with
Bulgarian, Dari, Farsi (Persian), (Modern) Greek, Hindi-Urdu,
Indonesian and Malay.
But the list does not stop here, the third group has languages
that are even more difficult than German: Amharic, Bengali,
Burmese, Czech, Finnish, (Modern) Hebrew, Hungarian, Khmer
(Cambodian), Lao, Nepali, Pilipino (Tagalog), Polish, Russian,
Serbo-Croatian, Sinhala, Thai, Tamil, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
And, finally, we have the most difficult languages of all
(as far as languages were part of that survey): Arabic,
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
So, how much French can I understand?
Well, I listened to TV shows, and whenever I got something,
I wrote it down. So here are some French sentences I once understood
listening to TV shows. (I would not have been able to write them down
in correct French spelling, so I used a service for the writing.)
Monsieur Data, vous prenez les commandes.
Vous êtes capable de rire.
Vous pouvez disposer. (Here, I actually got the meaning of
"disposer" from the situation in the TV show.)
Vous avez des raisons personnelles ?
Ma mémoire fonctionne parfaitement bien.
alimentation principale, alimentation de secours
Je crois que maintenant ça marche.
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