Not sure if this concept is in the minds of Windows or Linux users, but I have been suspicious of "purgeable" storage on Apple systems.
However I recently moved a whole bunch of files from my main drive to an external SSD, which now gives rise to around 500 Gbytes of purgeable memory on the main drive.
I guess I could forcibly erase those files - releasing "free" space, but presumably there's not a lot of point, as I'm guessing that the OS or any programs/apps which need extra space will simply delete them, and use the space released - operations which might be hardly significant at all time wise.
What I'm not sure about is whether "purged" files can be recovered. I'm pretty sure that in some cases files can be recovered - if they've not been overwritten - and that's something I have done for other users who have managed to lose photos, but it was possible to recover some photos on occasions when they accidentally overwrote their memory cards.
However I recently moved a whole bunch of files from my main drive to an external SSD, which now gives rise to around 500 Gbytes of purgeable memory on the main drive.
I guess I could forcibly erase those files - releasing "free" space, but presumably there's not a lot of point, as I'm guessing that the OS or any programs/apps which need extra space will simply delete them, and use the space released - operations which might be hardly significant at all time wise.
What I'm not sure about is whether "purged" files can be recovered. I'm pretty sure that in some cases files can be recovered - if they've not been overwritten - and that's something I have done for other users who have managed to lose photos, but it was possible to recover some photos on occasions when they accidentally overwrote their memory cards.